The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
July 5, 1899

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i LAST EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, JULY 15, 1899. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. ,J. J I t f n I J 1 t f, 1

5 St ORIGIfJALlDEAS. City Engineer Barnes Planning New City Hall. How Best to Use the Space the Question. OFFICES IN FRONT. Proposed to Use Corner Exclu sively For Officers. Fire Department Face Seventh Street. on Auditorium 1 50 by 105 Feet on Middle of Block. City Engineer Barnes Is working- on a rough sketch of the flour plan of the proposed city hall, auditorium and fire department. It will be necessary to have the council agree upon the general plan of the building before an archi tects' competition is opened or one is employed to make the working draw ings. submitted to the city council through the building committee. It provides for a. fire department building 102 feet long at one side and 108 at the other, the difference being to provide for light and ventilation from the rear. The fire de partment would be 50 feet In width. It would face on Seventh street. On the Quincy street side and occupy ing the corner it Is proposed to have a building two stories high and 25 feet wide for the use of city offices. At the rear of the Are department and with an open space between would be the coun cil chamber which it Is proposed to have on the ground floor. On the Quincy street side provision will be made for more city offices. The plan Is to have the corner for a space of about 50 feet occupied by water company offices. The is on ,he assumption that the city will soon own the water supply plant. Enough other officers must be provided to use ufl the 150 space fronting on Quincy street. The auditorium, it is proposed", will occupy the remainder of the site. It would be 150 feet by 105 feet and the main floor would seat about 3,000 peopie. If a gallery is built around the three Bides of the hall, as it should be, it will afford space for 1,500 people more. The committee rooms would be on the r.orth side of the auditorium and would be so situated that they could- be used either for the use of the city officers or tor committee rooms. There is an obstacle which may pre vent several plans being submitted by architects and thc-t is a legal one. Ac cording to City Attorney Bird the law provides that the eneineer must fur nish the plans. As the engineer is not an architect the plans must be made by some one eise and how that can best be done is a question that is now agitating the mayor and council. Mayor Drew suggested today that the Commercial club mijrht take no the matter and receive competitive plans by offering prizes. There is some money In the old auditorium fund and it is suggested that this could be used for that purpose to good advantage. The engineer would tnen be called upon to approve the plan accepted by the Com mercial club. The city couill will meet tonight when suggestions for having the work pushed with the t r-atest possible rap idity will be discu5.s-d. NEW FIRE DEPARTMENT. Things to Be Done to Improve the Service. In building the new fire department headquarters, several questions have to be considered. The building must be built with the Idea that it will be used as the depart ment headquarters for many vears to come and must be able to accommodate new aparatus as the department grows, as it will have to in order to keep pace with the growth of the city. The ques tion of the location of the fire mar shal's office, whether it be in the city building or the headquarters building, the doing away with or retaining the big fire bell, the- location of the build ing, its heating facilities and ventila tion are among the most important fea tures. The health of the men must be con sidered and in this connection the ven tilating of the building is one of the most important features. If the build 4ng is two stories in height facing on Seventh street with a sufficient space left at the rear and west and east sides, the rooms can be made comfortable and the ventiiation Plmost perfer-t with windows on all sides and a large vpnti lator on the roof. A suggestion that the city offices but in the third storv is im practicable for the reason that being above the department the noise of re sponding to alarms would be a source of annoyance to those working in the offices and the ventilation by means of a ventilator would not be good. With a 50 foot frontasre on Seventh treet and a building perhaps 125 feet deep, the department would have no more room than is needed. Within a short time the headquarters must be equipped with an aerial ladder truck 55 feet long which with a hose wagon and chemical engine must stand in the rear. The chiefs horse and wag-on and three pieces of reserve apparatus must be accommodated as we'.l as from eignt to ten horses. The engine room must not be crowded so as to interfere with qui'-k hitching. The sleeping and day quarters for the men must be large enough to health fully accommodate perhaps twice as many men as are now in the two com panies for with the addition of the much needed truck, and other appar atus, the force will have to be in creased. The sleeping- room for the members of the different companies must necessarily be over the apparatus to insure quick responding to alarms One feature which is badly needed is m. large dry room. In the winter hose which is used at a fire !s filled with ice and has to be thawed out before it is ready for service. The men's clothing is often soaked and has to be dried Such a room can be fitted up in the basement. Among the improvements which are contemplated is the placing of the tiorses close to the apparatus in ac cordance with the latest ideas instead of in the rear which is an obsolete cus tom. .The paving o the runways for the horsea with cedar blocks which are cheaper than flooring and which dead ens the sound. Two exits in front and at thi; fide are needed. The fire apparatus to use the front exit and a side door for the use of the chief and his wagon. One plan under consideration by Chief Wil marth is a system of fire reporting. In case a business house is on fire at night the chief's wagon will be sent to thj home of the proprietor to bring him at once to the fire. A complete list of the proprietors of stores and their resi dence and telephone numbers to be kept in the chief's wagon ready for ref erence at the fire. This system, in dif ferent ways, is in use in larger cities. The chief's office will probably be bet ter placed in the headquarter's building in order that he may be in close touch with his men. Some wish the fire bell to ring every alarm but it will probably be done away with as about the only point in favor of it is that peoph may know whether the fire is in their dis trict or not but as the districts are very large it is of little service irt that direction as the fire might be six or eight blocks from the box where the alarm is sent in. The reasons for doing away with it are numerous but espec ially for the reason thai when people hear the fire bell they rush into the street and bother the apparatus in making a run. Topeka has one of the best ft. re de partments in the country and should be equipped and accommodated in the best manner possible, consistent witl the present conditions. BRYAN DOESN'T CARE "Whether He Is Nominated Again or Not, He Says.. Atlanta, Ga., July 5. Speaking at a banquet given in this city last night Col. W. J. Bryan emphasized th3 fact that the money question would not be lost sight of in the coming campaign. He said further that anti-Imperialism and anti-trust would be subjects allot ed prominent places in the strugjJe a.nd that the importance of these topics was gaining ground daily. "Whether I am nominated or not in 1900 Is immaterial to me," sad Mr. Bryan. "Whether I shall ever again be a candidate for any office depends on circumstances. I dolft want to be a candidate for president unlesp, those who think as I do believe that I can do more for the principles of the- party already adopted than any one else I would rather help somebody else within the party -than be the cause of the party's defeat. If the Democratic party wants somebody to lead a retreat, they must find some one accustomed to walking backwards. The Democratic party will not weaken on the noney question and the question of imperial ism will bring more votes out of tie Re publican party in the coming campaign than in any of the campaigns siiH'e the last canvass of Abraham Lincoln.'" At the close of the banquet, Mr. F-ry-an stated to the representative of the Associated Press that he had no prefer ence for the place of holding the nat ional convention. He will be entirely satisfied with any action the Demo cratic executive committee may Wtke in the natter. Mr. Bryan left early this morning for Gainesville, where le will address the Chautauqua. POISON AND GUN Used In the Attempt on; the Life of the Ameer. London, July 5. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Globe says that advices have been received there from Cabul. capital of Afghanistan that an Afghan recently discharged a rifle, point blank at the ameer, but missed him, the bullet lodging in the shoulder of a general standing nearby. The advices also say that the ameer s brother, Ishak Khan, attempted to bribe a cook to poison the ameer ana that when the plot was discovered Ishak fled into Russian Asia and the cook was hanged. PINGREE DONE UP. Supreme Court Ruins His Mu nicipal Kailway Scheme. Lansing, Mich., July 5.-i-The Michigan supreme court at noon today decided the case brought to test the validity of the McLeod law, which authorized the appointment of the Detroit street rail way commission whose object was the purchase and municipal ownership and operation of street railways of Detroit. The decision is that the law is imcou stitional: that there is no such office ia the Detroit street rail-ay commissioner; that Governor Pingree and the other commissioners have no title thereto and the judgment of ouster must be entered against them. The Detroit plan for municipal ownership had been tempor arily blocked by the legal difficulcies in the way of holding a special election on the question. By today's decision ajl authority is taken from the commission. SPRING GUN KILLED HIM. A Man Meets Death 'While Trying to Enter an Empty House. Butte, Mont., July 5. A special to the Miner from Bozeman, Mont., says: A bicyclist supposed to be W. F. Rhodes of Sparta, Wis., was shot and killed while trying to break into a cabin last evening about two miles northeast of Chestrut. A spring gun had been set for thieves and it is thought the dead man was prying open the shutter in order to shelter himself in the cabin when the gun was dis charged. Checks payable to W. F. Rhodes of Sparta, Wis., were fuund on the victim's person. MATTOX NOT MOLESTED. Report That the Outlaw Regularly Visits His Mother. Guthrie, O. T., July 5. It Is eported here that Clyde Mattox regularly visits his mother, who lives a short distance out of Ponca City, and that he is not molested by the officers. It is not known here whether the story is true. Officers' Names Stolen.. Washington, July 5. At the war de partment there is a lar:e blank took where officers coming to Washington register. This register ;s kept in the hall opposite the office of the adjutant general. Iast Sunday some one raided the book and cut out the names of prominent officers, particularly those who made themselves famous during the Spanish wax. CROWINCWORSE. First District Affairs Becoming More Complicated. Unsuccessful Effort Made to Keep Broderick Out. TEMPTING BAIT. Is Tendered Nomination For Congressman-at-Large. U1 Sorts of Political Trades Being Made. Congressional affairs in the First dis trict are becoming more and more com plicated each day and the announce ment from Judge Broderick that he roDoses to enter the race adds new luster to the brilliancy of the contest ivhich is now practically inaugurated. I The friends of Mr. Bailey, including SVlr. Leland, have made an effort to in iluce Mr. Broderick to become a candi date for congressman-at-large, but the x-congressman only sniffed at the bait y.nd retired into a quiet place and out of -he way of temptation. With Broderick out of the way Bailey tnd Curtis would have an open field for free fight, but the candidacy of Brod erick makes the whole business uncer tain for both Bailey and Curtis. Talk ing to Mr. Curtis, Judge Broderick said a, few days Eigo: "Last year you fellows fixed me up in great style and I think I've got a chance this year and next year to get back easily. The reason I believe this io be true is that you and Bailey will be so mad at each other that you will not exchange delegations to nominate either of you, a condition which I figure, will make it easy for me to get the nomina tion. "I am sure that if the fight continues to wax not that a new man has a better show than either of the two men who seek the nomination. This being true I see no reason why I should not get in the race." Mr. Broderick will start in the fight with Jackson county. Then lie will have ifefferson county because Charles F. Johnson who was appointed district judge wants to be renominated and it is said that the trade has already been made, the provision being that Jackson tuunty Republicans will support John yon without opposition in exchange for the support of Jefferson county for Jiroderlck. Then there is a plan to deliver Atchi son county to Broderick. This is due fo the fact that Jim Chisam and his r'rowi are at outs with Iceland and t.aving stayed out when Curtis was ruminated they figure a new man would S.ive them a new lease of life in congres sional matters and for this reason they seek to turn Atchison to Broderick. liailey has been working in Atchison county, making promises in an attempt to turn the tide but Chisam and his associates claim they have the thins going now in their direction. Leavenworth county will divide her delegation when it comes to a vote in the convention so none of .the candi dates figure on receiving the full vote of that county. This delegation will di vide in order to permit Senator Baker to stay out of the congressional fight. Should the delegation go for one man the remaining candidates would at once turn in and fight Baker. This is a polit ical proposition which Is plain and the result is also plain, consequently Leav enworth county will cut no particular figure in the fight. Mr. Curtis is the favorite in Brown county, and would, under ordinary cir cumstances carrv the county on a scuare fight, but the politicians in that part of the state are doing some figur ing which they hope will cut him out thf-re. The judicial district along the north line of the state composed of Doniphan, Brown and Nemaha county is now pre sided over by Judge W. I. Stuart. Broun county has the senator and Ne maha the congressman-at-large. Of course Nemaha hopes to have the con gressman from the First district nert year. Doniphan already has the jude. Now the politicians in Nemaha and Doniphan want the people of Brown county to take the senatorsiiip for an other term and turn in and help Bailey defeat Curtis. These are but a few of the nlans which are being promulgated and the politicians are busy all the time con juring up schemes to lick the other fel lows in the First. There is another fea ture recently brought into the fight, which is doing some damage to Curtis' interests. Dave Mulvane, in an inter view told the representatives of the Leavenworth Times and the Kansas City Star, D. R. Anthony, jr., and W. J. Biddle, together, that Senator Baker would not receive a single vote from the Shawnee county delegation when he came up for re-election. Mr. Mulvane presumed to suggest that Shawnee county would be for his friend, Mr. Burton and thereby cause a row. Neither Biddle nor Anthony published the interview in their papers, but the statement which Mr. Mulvane made to them is being generally circulated in the district. Col. Anthony discussed the statement editorially in the Times, but it was not published in full. Some of the politicians in Topeka are indignant at Mulvane and charge him with a de liberate attempt to cut Curtis' throat. Mr. Mulvane had no such Intention, so he says, but the statement which he made has been warped to suit the exi gencies of the occasion, he believes. This statement is causing some fric tion and Mulvane is being urged to g ft out or into the Curtis camp as he ray see fit. At least this is the con dition as reported by some of Mulvane's friends. Other men say this was the first indiscreet utterance Mr. Mulvane has ever permitted himself to indulge in, yet they seem disposed to make the inost of this in the line of trouble. Tries to Brace Jester Up. Mexieo.July 5. James Moore of Kan sas City, a nephew of Alexander Jester, the alleged murderer of Gilbert Gates, is here and has identified the prisoner as the man who broke jail here 28 years ago. Nevertheless, he will be a witness for Jester at the trial. At first Jester refused to admit that he knew Moore. Moore told Jfster not to break down, (saying that the prosecution could prove nothing against him. "Weather Indications. Chicago, July 5. For Kansas: Gen erally fair tonight and Thursday; warmer tonight; southerly winds. DIDN'T TELL KOGG. Texan Didn't Know There Was a Van "Wyok Boom. New Tork, July 5. Ex-Governor James S. Hogg of Texas, who stam peded the Tammany Fourth of July mass meeting for Bryan, said last night: "I did not know there was a VanWyck boom on. I did not expect to attend the meeting at all much less speak. You know what those five minute extem poraneous speeches arej A fellow never gets a chance to say all he wants to say and what he does say is more than he ought to say. What I say is, what's the use of a meeting anyway unless a fellow can say what he feels like say ing? I feel very kindly toward Tam many. Its leaders have always shown me the utmost courtesy and cordiality. Therefore I don't want anybody to think that I was anxious to get an opportuni ty to spoil a Tammany meeting. Nobody told me anything about VanWyck and how could I be expected to know? What tickled me was the way the boys holler ed when I said Bryan. I tell you there is no use talking, Bryan and Stone are the men for 1900." PARTING SHOT. Salina Lodge of Pyramids Dis charges Its Hea?y Guns and Surrenders. Another chapter in the Salina lodge charge of fraud against the Ancient Or der of Pyramids has just been com pleted and is red hot, not in words espe cially, but in the hornet's nest of trou ble which it will probably stir up among the other councils of that order. The Salina lodge of the Pyramids is a thing of the past. It passed out of existance last Saturday night when it voluntarily and unanimously voted to return its charter to the head officers and even on the very same night it transferred its entire list of 187 mem bers to the rolls of another order, name ly, the Bankers Union of the World. The Salina lodge in defense of its ac tion has issued the following state ment: Whereas, This council of 187 members has decided by unanimous vote to sur render its charter, therefore. Resolved, That our fraternal duty to other members of the order and our common duty to our fellow men require that a statement be mailed to other councils setting forth the followingfacts, which have moved us to abandon an order which we have served faithfully, and seek insurance and protection for our families elsewhere: 1. Various things of comparatively small import have been coming to our attention from time to to time reflecting upon the management of the order. 2. On June 20, 1899, we sent a com mittee of three good and competent men earnest workers and officers in our council to Topeka and to the Royal Temple meeting in Kansas City, charged with the duty of investi gating. 3. This committee asked for the co operation of members of the Royal Ex ecutive Board, teiiir.g 'hem plainly that they were sent to learn "how things were run." No assistance whatever was given them by such officers. Repeated "requests for the charter were unavail ing. They were denied admission to the Royal Temple as spectators, although one of them was a member of the Royal Temple under any fair construction of the by-laws, and although many per sons were admitted as voters, who were wholly ineligible under the by-laws. They were forced to seek information from offices of insurance commissioners and secretaries of state and from mem bers of the order other than the officers above mentioned. 4. WTe have certified copies of charter, of reports to insurance department and other documentary evidence, establish ing conclusively our statements which follow: The order Is now controlled absolute ly by E. S. McClintock. royal prophet: C. S. McClintock, his son, royal medical director; and F. P. Long, his nephew, royal scribe these three being a ma jority of the royal executive committee of five, who under the charter, hold office for life unless they resign or are removed by themselves. The Royal Temple, under the charter, has nothing but advisory powers. The executive committee of five has supreme control, tinder the charter the form of govern ment is not representative. Under the charter and under existing circum stances, E. S. McCintock is practically supreme and absolute dictator. The members of the order can have no effec tive voice in the government that is not approved by him. Our supposed repre sentation is a snare and a delusion. We have legal advice which says that un der existing charter it can not legally do business in Kansas. Dr. Andrews who, in the judgment of several members of our council who knew him, is a most excellent and competent man, resigned from the executive committee several months ago Jsecause he felt that he could not afford to be identified with such a management as the McClintocks forced upon the order. We are told that Mr. Rodgers, who is regarded as a good man, will resign from the execu tive committee soon Wre do not know whether this is true or not. He has been out of the position of royal scribe for some months. The business methods of the royal officers have been faulty, (to state it mildly), their reports have not been accurate, such as auditing of ac counts as any reputable insurance com pany or bank or trust company would require has been impossible. Things too numerous to mention lead us to the con viction that the order under its present management is unworthy of confidence and can not be relied upon. Resolved, That a copy of these reso lutions be forwarded, over the certifi cate of our noble prophet and scribe, to other councils of the order. STERNE'S STERN DUTY. United States Marshal May Preside at a Kriple Hanging. It Is possible that United States Mar shal W. E. Sterne may have a legal hanging on his hands at Leavenworth next fall three of them in fact. Ac cording to the federal statutes criminal assault committed on a government reservation or anywhere under the jur isdiction of the federal government, is punishable by the same penalty as murder in the first degree. Three ne groes. Heck Robinson, Charles Porter, and Ed Fleming, are now in jail at Leavenworth, held without bond, for as saulting two girls on the Fort Leaven worth reservation a few weeks ago. They will be tried at the next term of the United States district court, which comes at Leavenworth next fall. Up to 1896 the only penalty that could be giv en for the crime was death, but three years ago congress modified this to al low the jury to make it life imprison ment if the circumstances justified it. ROADS CHOKED UP By Large Number of Christian Endeavor Specials. Enroute to the Annnal Conven tion at Detroit. 100,000 NEW MEMBERS 'Added to the Ranks In the Past Year. The Organization Has Extended Into Russia. Detroit, July 6. The officers of the United Society of Christian Endeavor did not arrive today in time to hold the annual busiress meeting of that corporation at the hour set, viz., 10 a, m., and th? meeting was late in eon evening. The speci.il train from Boston was a victim of a temporary conges tion of railroad traffic caused by the large number of Christian Endeavor special traiiiS en r jute to Detroit. The leaders of the Christian Endeavor Bishop John P. Newman, of the movements were 'consequently late in arriving. Skies which gave promise of probable showers greeted the thousands of En deavor delegates who flocked into the city from every direction today but for a July day the atmosphere was reason ably cool. The earlier arrivals who had traveled all night spent most of the morning seeking their temporary homes and getting settled for the week. Street cars and steamers carried thousands of young strangers who employed the pre liminary day of the convention in see ing the points of interests in and about the City of Straits The convention be gins tonight' with a grand welcoming rally in Tent Endeavor. Rev. Dr. Frances E. Clark, president; Secretary John W illis Baer and Treas urer Wm. Sh-aw arrived at 1C:30. At 11 o'clock L)r. C'Jark called to on.er the an nual meeting of 1 he United Society in the Hotel Cftrdillac. Dr. Clark ad dressed the members of the legal orga nization in ).art as follows: "The past year of Christian Endeavor work has bfen a year of remarkable prosperity, a, year signally marked by the favor of God. Christian Endeavor has now so largely occupied the field that the phenomenal growth- recorded in the early years of the movement can not be expected. "Neverthel-ss, the growth has been verv satisfatorv and the accession of irmftOtl to mil- ranks w.-itViin h ltict- 1 t months is ni small addition. "I recently; made a journey to the West Indies Swhieti was full of encour agement and hope. I found in the island of Jamaica Very deep and intelligent interest in the movement. In Cuba, too, I found the beginnings of Christian Endeavor and a very hopeful spirit and outlook for the future. In ether lands Christian Endeavor seems to be obtain ing constantly firmer foothold. Our British felloe'.' Endeavorers are looking forward with great anticipation to next year's exodus to London. Ir Germany and France and Scandinavia the work has made ftry considerable advance. In Spain, in -spite of the distraction of the war anck the natural antipathy to things American the societies have all held their own and have even increased in number. Russia, which a year ago was the only country without Christian Endeavor has now been invaded by the movement, and we hear of our society almost within the czar's household. "Our efforts in behalf of universal peace and international arbitration have been a great success. It has received the hearty approval of many of the greatest 'men in Europe as well as America and has called forth on two or three occasions telegrams and letters of approbation and gratitude -from the American peace commissioners at The Hague. "The spirit of brotherhood of national and international fellowship; of seeking after God and not the things that per tain to office and station, will, I believe, characterize this eighteenth annual con vention and I pray God that His spirit may pervade every future gathering of Christian Endeavorers and ;the whole movement in all itR phases and forms of work the world o'ver." i The business before the united society was quickly transacted. The treasur er's report shows expenditures during the fiscal year of $9,678, and $352 now in the treasury. The report of George B. Graff of Boston, agent of the Pub lishing company showed cash on hand at the beginning of the fiscal year, June 1, 189S. of $1,110. Receipts during the year $67.9i6: expenditures $66,628; cash on hand 2,439. The western office vi.' the publishing department, located at Chicago report ed expenditures of $12,563 and $664, now in its treasury. In accordance with the report of the nominating committee the following were elected trustees for four years: Rev. C I. Brown. Pennsylvania; Prof. H. L. Wiilett, Chicago; Rev. Samuel McNaughey, Boston; Rev. A. C. Crews, Toronto; Rev. H. K. Walker, D. D., Los Angeles; Rev. J. W. Chapman, T. D. New York; Rev. C. E. McManiman, Ohio. The foregoing were elected trustees for one year upon the reorganization of the United Society a year ago. Robert E. Speer of New York was elected a trustee to succeed the late Rev. J. C. French, D. D., of Newark, N. J., and Rev. N. B. Grubb, D. D., of Philadel phia was made an additional trustee to represent the Mennonites which de nomination has heretofore been unrep resented on the board. The present officers of the United So ciety were unanimously re-elected upon recommendation of the nominating committee as follows: President, Rev. Xr. Francis E. Clark; secretary, John Willis Baer; treasurer, William Shaw, all of Boston. Representatives on the board of trustees of the United Society were elected from each state, territory and the provinces of Canada- Horticultural Picnic. The Shawnee County Horticultural so ciety will hoki a picnic in the grove at the reform school tmorrow and run a special train, leaving the Rock Island de pot at 10:30 and returning at 5 o'clock. M. E. Church,. Who Died Today. ATREST. Death of Bishop Newman of the M. E. Church. Saratoga, N. Y., July 5. John P. New man of the Methodist Episcopal church, is dead. The wonderful vitality exhibited by Bishop Newman who has been in a ser ious condition since early Sunday morn ing, has astonished friends apd physi cians. All hope of his recovery was aban doned more than 24 hours ago. At 10 o'clock last night Dr. S. E. Strong re ported him as still in a semi-conscious condition and gradually becoming weak er. Milk is the only sustenance he has been able to take for several days. Among those who volunteered their services at the Newman cottage last night were Mrs. U. S. Grant, Mrs. Fred D. Grant and Miss Julia Grant. For some time he had been suffering from a partial paralysis of the limbs. His case lately became aggravated; his whole body gradually becoming affected. His affliction was increased by an at tack of pneumonia. He has been' con fined to his cottage here for upward of four weeks. Bishop John Philip Newman was one of the most cultured churchmen in America. In I860, after Dr. Newman had spent some years in the ministry, he went abroad and devoted a long time in study at various continental universi ties. While abroad he visited Syria. Egypt, and the holy places of Bible lit erature. On his return he was sent south as a missionary, and during his stay there he established two colleges, a. church journal and three conferences. In 1869 he was appointed chaplain of the United States senate, an office he filled for six years. While in Washing ton he organized the Metropolitan Me morial Methodist church and was its pastor. In 1874 Dr. Newman revisited Asia, and after a year's sojourn in Palestine he returned to his old church in Washington. He was a personal friend of General Grant, and acted as the spiritual consoler of the former president during the tatter's last ill ness. Dr. Newman's works on the holy land are among the most interesting descriptions of that country extant. He was 73 years old. His episcopal residence was San Francisco, California.although his home has been in Saratoga. MOVING SURGERY PICTURE. Operations Shown In Germany by Means of Cinematograph. Berlin, July 5. A fin de siecle appli cation of cinematography is reported from Kiel. The French surgeon. Doyen, becoming dissatisfied with his clinical demonstrations where but few observers really see anything, had a special cine matograph made and took instantaneous photographs of a variety of operations, showing every detail. Saturday he gave a. successful demonstration before a large scientific audience. Dr. Doyen is distinguished for the swiftness and certainty of his stroke, but does not recommend the practice to general imitation. TEXASjA SEA. Submerged District Is 500 Miles Long and 50 Wide. Water Is From Tiro to Seven teen Feot Deep. HUNDREDS OF HOUSES Have Disappeared From Sight 51 any Swept Away. Loss of Life and Property Has Ueen EEormous. DROWNED NUMBER 60. That Many Known and Esti mates Ran io 300. Property Destroyed Beaches Far Into the Millions. Houston, Tex., July 5. A correspond ent has Just returned from a voyage through the flooded districts. .The half has not beeen told of the havocjvrought. .Arter mis nooa wiu come siciv;itr un doubtedly and what a week ago was the fairest part of Texas is noy almost a wilderness. The waters of th Brdzoa have for six days covered its -alley to a depth of from six to thirty fe-'t:whera a week ago there were on evtry hand fields of cotton and corn and thousands of acres of watermelons and canta loupes, today there is slimy n ud over all the vegetation. There are carcasses of cows, mules, pfgs, dogs a'.id cats, mayhap humans, for many are missing.' Our party left Bryan at sunris" yester day morning going to the Navasota bottoms and to a point abou. three miles from Millican. Here we encoun tered everywhere an overflow from the Navasota which spread out fully two miles on either side of the Houston St Texas Central tracks. Everything is under wdter from two to seventeen feet. It looked on all sides like a great lake and the water was so high that for a vast area it com-, pletely submerged the telegraph and telephone poles along the line. In truth, portions of the Navasota bottoms are even now a perfect sea, extending four or five miles wide. I saw hundreds of houses totally submerged and as many; moft were swept from their founda tions and destroyed. The planters of the bottoms are still moving their help and whatever is left of their stock to places where they can be cured for. They are all nobly helping each other and take refuge wherever they can, some of them seeking safety m house tops. All the' planters stated that the out- floods, or losses incurred by the destruc tion of crops, stock and buildings. Near ly every planter has built boi its and sent them through the flooded districts to render assistance to the people and if possible save some oi-their tirowning stock. The flood district has a length of over 500 miles, a breadth of probably fifty miles and in all this vast space darnnee incalculable has been done. The loss, to life will never be fully known per haps. The bottoms were thickly set tled, mostly with negro tenant farmers, and among these has been the greatest loss of life. To show the damage done the following estimates have bf en made by men who are in a position to know: Lives lost, from 100 to 300. loss to farmers, including crops as weil as live stock, from $5,000,000 to $ly,00O.flOO:dam age to railroads and to country bridges, $2,000,000 to $4,000,000. These estimates a -e taken in 1m e whola area. It is known that more.' than 60 people have met their deaths;tlat n any bodies have been recovered: it f? not be lieved that all of them will be! ever re covered. BRAZOS OUT FOR MILES. Galveston, July 5. At Brookshire, the Brazos river has overflowed for miles. No loss of life is reported tnt-re. The citizens have asked the governor for as sistance and measures have be'n taken for the relief of the sufferers. Mayor Jones of Galveston is making f' person al canvass of the business district. No word was received from Dewty today. TWO TONS OF GOLD. Carried Into Dawson In One Day on Baclis of Horses. San Francisco, July S. A special via Seattle says: Gold dust was pouring into Dawson when the Humboldt's passengers left. They allege that on the mojning of June 20 a pack train of 20 horSses each animal carrying 200 pounds of i-jold dust arrived from El Dorado creek. There were two tons of it, worth fully $1,000,000. It is said that eleven of the horses were weighted down with dust from one claim. Another Dawson party has arrived from the north today on the Dirigo. Joseph Putrau and Henry Berry had jointly 700 pounds of dust. Aside frorr this no one man had to exceed j0 pounds. The total on tlie vessel was about $150,000. ffhe City of Topeka is close behind the Dirigo with considerable mora treasure. Richard Emmons, J. Gosham and! Orin W. Jackson sought to reach tha Copper river section from Dawson and came near starving to death. They were making the journey for the North American Transportation and Trading, company. Their Indian guides deserted and the men were lost for ten days. Miners have reached Dawson from Porcupine river without gold. Some say they prospected all the rivers as far north as Herschel island in the Arctic ocean, but did not find anything. A townsite has been located about 20 miles above Fort Selkirk. A copper ledge outcroppings of which have been traced a distance of 13 miles has been located at Williams Po,nt by a Saa Francisco syndicate. DEWEY'S ITINERARY. Admiral Will Visit Constantinople on His Way Home. New Tork, July 5. A special to th.? Herald from Port Said says: The Olympia with Admiral Dewey will probably soon arrive at Suez and proceed to the Dardanelles, the United States minister having invited the ad miral to spend a short time witi him oa the Bosphorus.

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American Eteam Laundry, ill :wst Seventh. Telephone 241. 'A fine selection of high grade Ther mometers Just received at Bennett's Optical store, 730 Kansas avenue. Detroit and Return, $22.60 122.50 via Uie Jluck lIjUii ReuU. Set) ux agents. Mme. Yale's ....jm .jit" f""1". tr tV Not ROAD TO THE WHITEHOUSE. Presidential Candidates Haye Begun to Learn That It Lies Through Mississippi Valley. the ROOSEVELT'S TOUR, And the Ambition of the San Juan Hero, Breezily Discussed by John J. Ingalls. tJ. J. Ingalls in N. T. Journal.! Political diagnosis is not an exact science, nor are its deductions always infallible. The doctors sometimes err, but to the professional eye Roosevelt exhibits marked presidential symp toms. Hia pulse, temperature an respira tion, on his recent western tour, were slightly above normal. His progress from New York to Las Vegas was triumphal and spectacular. The itinerary was distinctly theatrical. His managers arranged the entrances and exits opportunely. The rear plat form was utilized. The advance agent secured effective press notices. .The change of costume in Paul Morton's private car. as the end of the journey drew near, from the conventional garpof Albany to the souch bat. cavalry boots, martial gauntlets and yellow duck un iform of the Rough Riders at Santiago was dramatic. It reminded one somehow of the eock ed hat and gray overcoat of the con queror of Marengo, whom Conkling was wont to describe as the great trag edian of the nineteenth century. Wheth er Grant ever carried his Appomattox clothes in a dress suit case to wear at Grand Army reunions, his biographer does not record. Presidential candidates have begun to learn that the road to the White House runs through the Mississippi valley. The approval of the prairies is indispen sable to success. The west holds the purse, the sword and the sceptre. The salt water despots have had their day. The west supplies the votes, and wants to know for whom they are to be cast. Hence, for the candidate, the longest way round is the shortest way home. If Roosevelt's purpose was to sound public opinion, the result must have been gratifying. He found a warm and cordial, almost an enthusiastic, wel come. He is popular. Notwithstanding his metropolitan ancestry, his wealth, his culture, there is a breezy strain of the frontiersman about him and an ab sence of starch and scallops and frills that endears him to the average consti tuency. Then his Impulsiveness, his lack of judgment, his want of discretion and discernment are not without their charm. Especially to the young, who detest cold, cautious and calculating conservatism. The governor toas learned something the past few years. His instincts have always been right, but he has n"t till recently comprehended the relations of his own individuality to the rest of the Good Fresh. Whisky. universe. His sense of personal pro- portion has been defective. He- has TFrom the Washington Post. J been so conscious of his own rectitude Twi negro laborers who had been at that he has been unable to conceive v,-0rk all the morning carrying bricks that any one could differ from him i d mortal. to the workmen on a new without turpitude. The most malign- ant foe to temperance is the sentknen- building In South W ashmgton re tal prohibitiontet, and the worst efcemy overheard recently discussing the im of reform in politics is the reformer. Portar.t matter of locating the best Charles Sumner was a type of. the 'sky. They sat m their .dusty over species that will make no terms with al s pvfflng their pipes at the end of the evil except immediate and uncondUion- m!.,, v.mea0 .,i al surrender. Unless they -can .each "H er Simon said on; medi- the goal at once, they refuse to take tative tone. whar does yo usually git a step in the right direction, and so Hv-eRr'other Ptastus mot in gen- popular self-government is the s:ipre- 's" ,X y J macy of the average and not of the q MIT T' t MIster Bm Car best. They think the Kingdom of luln-Irinkon thatole Heaven sutlers violence, and Ui a the whisky of Mister Jones' Mr. Car violent take it by force. They forget makes his fresh every day, and I. l'T bul.n as it goes. To' can tas'e it tics is the science or compromises. Koosevelt had some of these charac teristics, but ambition or years fhave made him tolerant. He drives wel! now in harness. He used to be so perpen dicular he was never quite sure he was straight unless he was leaning- over backward. The genuine reformer be lieves the true way to belong to a party is to revile its leaders, denounce its methods and policies, and give aid and comfort to its enemies. The people of the west have tiever learned the art of belonging- tu a party a little. They are Republicans or Dem ocrats or Fopulists a great deal and all the time. They are partisans, but not bigots. Since the colonel has parted company with Seth Low, Parkhurat and the other ideologists, and gone in with Piatt, he is better liked out this way. Independence and self-association are admirable, but majorities rule, and the ballot box decides whether truth is to be on the scaffold or on the throne. Koose velt has apparently decided to go with the majority hereafter. In his Kansas speeches he was as eulogistic as the most inveterate boom er. The average Kansas audience is always critical, and sometimes as un certain, coy and hard to please as wo man in our hours of ease, but it is al ways ready for a flirtation. Flattery and appeals to self-love never fail on deaf ears, and Roosevelt played Lothario with high art. He praised everything and everybody and his journey to and fro in the state was an uninterrupted series of ovations. Considering the size of the armies, the number of casualties and the dura tion of the campaign, the results of the Spanish-American war were the most incredible in history. It changed the geography of the world in sixty days. Contrasted with Gettysburg and the march to the sea. the operations at San tiago seem trivial and insignificant. More men were killed and wounded in single battle in the civil war than were actively engaged in our army and ravy combined. But when freedom recounts the sacrifices of her sons she does not recall their rank and station, nor the field on which they fell. That they gave their blood for the flag is enough. So El Caney and Siboney and San Juan will be remembered as long as Bunker Hill and Marathon. But though the harvest of glorv is so abundant, the crop of heroes is small. It has been intimated that the design originally was to have no heroes at all In order to avoid political complications in 1900. However this may be, it is singular that the only man who came out of the Cuban campaign with any halo in pop ular estimation, any of the fame that attends military prowess, was Koose velt, and his distinction was acquired in a. battle thai, .bad the same strategy as a football game or a pugilistic en counter, and no more. It was a superb exhibition of courage, endurance, forti tude, pluck and patriotism. It made Ri'usevelt governor of New York. It mjiy make him president of the United StjLtes. Jl'he American people can not be dfscrlbei properly as warlike. They pi'i-fer charters to the sword.. They are not pugnacious. They are Flow to ai,?er. Had it not been for the destruc tion of the Maine it is doubtful whether trvre would have been war with Spain. Tne administration was opposed to it. Tire business interests of the country di not want it. The Catholic church, wth its immense political iniluence, labored for peace. Rut the explosion in the harbor of Havana was the knell of Spanish dominion in the western hemis phere and the Pacific, and the war that followed was the people's war. JVith the Philippines it is different. Tlje conscience of the nation is not in terested. The appeal to patriotism is not strenuous. The field of operations is. 'far, and the advantage of victory is dubious, questionable and remote. F;.?liting Aguinaldo and his savage hirdes is like a contest with wolves. THey assemble and disperse and reap pear unconscious of defeat and Indiffer ent to.t.eath. They are reinforced by the hewtiiity of nature, by the fatal ener gies of the air infesting where they fly and poisoning where they repose The Twentieth Kansas regiment, recruited at 1.HO0. has 200 invalids on the way home,' 550 more unfit for duty from wouni.i and disease; but 450 remain on the tiring line. People are beginning to wonder why we paid twenty millions to Spain and, if the North American In dians iheid civilization at bay in a hand-to'j-hurjd tight for two centuries, when the tn million Filipinos will be paci fied. 4 Ver it not for the humiliation and ignominy of retreat and surrender, there would be an immediate demand for evacuation, but pride of race and 'dreams of destiny and hunger for the Torizou and passion for empire come in, and the depleted regiments will be filled Tup, and the administration supported, even to the point of exterminating the "insurgents. The man or the party ad vocating a policy of relinquishment ami submission will go into history with the Hartford convention and the copper .heads of the rebellion. In clamoring for expansion and Orien tal dominion. Roosevelt appeals to im pulses that are indomitable. He repre sents the inevitable. He anticipates the future. He moves along the line of least resistance. Above him flames the splen dor of the flag, with its intangible in spiration, the emblem of irresistible pewer, the symbol of imperishable glory. Roosevelt did not omit to remind his Kansas audiences that they, too, rind a hero the adventurous and intre pid Frederick Funston, farm hand, re porter, explorer, lecturer, soldier of for tune and, at thirty-four, brigadier gen eral. He bears the same relation to the Luzon campaign as Roosevelt to that in Cuba, and for similar qualities and exploits. These two. with Dewey, are thus far the famous names of the war. The verdict of history is yet to be pronounced. Time sometimes reverses the Judgment of contemporaries. Meanwhile the beneficent trusts that L'were to cheapen commodities and bene- fit consumers have, during the past -thirty days, raised the price of brooms, raisins, butterine, wall paper, rubber goods, glassware, itieat, crackers, furni ture, wagons, ploughs, fence wire and other necessaries from 15 to 100 per cent and Captain Oberlin M. Carter, who was convicted more than a year ago of stealing seventeen thousand dollars from the government and sentenced to fine, imprisonment and dismissal, is still t wearing the unitorm ana arawing tne partners will be protected by the stat ute of limitation. all de way.' "I am afraid," remarked the Filipino, "that we are not going to be successful in our undertaking." "Never mind shout our undertaking," answered his superior officer, savagely, as he put a couple of gold collars into his dress suit case. "What we want to do is to keep those Yankees from being successful in th.ir overtaking." Wash ington Star. PlH optimist vWHY DO You; RPPLFKUa THIS miserable pl-ay so heartily?' ''Miserable vdoyou shy? Do you THINK Ll NTEN jfjOBEVlSRPPOINTErt nFTBH PAYING a EMISSION.? WHY THEY LOST, Congressman Caruth of Ken tucky Talks to Tammany Of the Campaign of 189G and the Next One. "VOTINGEST" PEOPLE On Earth lie Declares Lire In State of Ohio. They Equal One Out of Three of the Population. New Tork, July 6. One of the speak ers at Tammany hall yesterday was Asher G. Caruth, member of congress from Kentucky. After speaking of the day then being celebrated throughout the union and the lessons taught by the Declaration of Independence, Mr. Caruth announced, his allegiance to the principles of that great document, the charter of Ameri can liberty and sounded a note of warn ing against any departure from the theories of government therein contain ed. Proud as he was of the glorious achievements of our army and navy, he would think that those victories were dearly purchased if they had to be paid for by a departure from the fundamen tal ideas on which the union has been formed and had grown so great and mighty. He thought the doctrine of hu man liberty so announced in the decla ration which Jefferson wrote and Adams advocated, intended for all time and he stood ready to say with the lat ter: "Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I am for the declaration. It is my living sentiment and by the bles sing of God, it shall be my dying senti ment, independence now, and indepen dence forever." He announced his adherence to the theory of the Monroe doctrine and his opposition to imperialism. In speaking of the territory acquired under the treaty of Paris, he expressed regret at the acquisition of the Philippines, but trusted that when the flag floated in peace over these possessions, we would with wise statesmanship regulate the affairs in those tar away isles of the Pacific, so that the people would learn the blessings of self government, and could be entrusted with, the manage ment of their own affairs. Coming down to and speaking of the issue of the campaign of lyuo Mr. Caruth said: THE DEFEAT IN 1896. "The year '96 lies in our r?ar: 1900 is In front of us. It is useless for us to talk of the causes of the defeat in 1S96. We know that we cast nearly one million more Democratic votes than were ever given to our candidates for president before, and yet we lost. Everything that human ingenuity could contrive, every expedient which desperation could suggest were used in order to corrupt the franchise and to secure the presi dency of the republic. It is not nec essary to particularize, but the 'voting esf people in the union seemed to live in Ohio, where one out of every three of the population was a voter in 1896, a proportion startling, previously unheard of and grossly untrue. Take old Ken tucky, my state, which gave Bryan in lSltS two hundred nd seventeen thous and votes to one hundred end seventy-five thousand votes given Cleveland in 1892, an increase of forty-two thousand, and yet in 1S92, we carried the state by forty thousand and lost it by two hundred and eighty-one in 1S96. It was the des perate effort on the part of the monied and corporate powers of this country to accomplish the defeat of the will of the people by false clamor and failing in that, by a false count. But 1S96 lies in the past and no 'regret, repentance or repining' can bring it back again, 'Let us cease to lament for that we can not help. And study help for that which we la ment.' "Nineteen hundred ia before iia, and to that year we must turn for succor. THE ISSUE IN 1900. "We can not, men of Tammany, ex pect that six million five hundred thous and votes of this country will ignore the principles for which they cast their suffrages less than three short years ago. Although defeat came to them, Democrats over this country believe, or at least a majority of them believe, and democracy is but the will of the major ity that the platform laid down in Chi cago in 1S96, states the cardinal doc trines of the Democratic faith, and on that platform they propose to fight the THE: FFUCfc Ut- battle of 1000. Although you may not be in thorough accord with the princi ples of faith therein enumerated, those principles are so far better and so much preferable to those of the Republican party, that I believe the people will ral ly around our standard and carry it to triumphant victory. THE TRUSTS. "But there is one issue," said Mr. Caruth, "which has become more per manent in the years that have gone since 1S96, than it was when the great popular convention assembled at Chi cago and constructed the Democratic platform, and upon that subject we must spealt with no uncertain voice in 1900, The evil of which we complain is the natural offspring of the miscalled American policy of the Republican party. The evil is upon us, because, as a nation we have been false to the prin ciples of equality proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. It is be cause we have not given 'equal rights to all men and exclusive privileges to no man.' W fostered manufactures and encouraged 'infant industries' until warmed into life and strength they have turned to strike with their poisonous stings the generous bosom which nourished them. All through a life co extensive with the life of the republic. Democracy has sounded a warning to the people, yet intv by inch, step by step, the so-called -ioctrine of 'protec tion' has advanced. Its advocate3 won their way by insidious pleas and false representations but" now, conscious of strength they boldly-throw off the mask and demand 'protection for protection's sake.' "On the floor of the house of repre sentatives of the United States in the session at which both the McKinley tariff bill and the anti-trust measure were passed, I heard the Hon. Wm. L, Wilson, a Democratic leader, a thought ful and scholarly student of public af fairs, warn the country that the McKin ley bill would be a breeder of trusts and combines. He said in illustration of the danger.'I remember an old rhyme which runs something like this: 'I heard a lion !i the lobby roar, Pray Mr. Speake, shall we shut the door. And keep him t.re, or shall we let him in To try if we can urn fcim out again.' "This is your position in regard to trusts, instead of fe'epin; the lion out, Brother McKinley 'comer, opening the door and says: "L?t him in, and then we are going to chjse him around and try to get him outagain. "The Republicans'not only opened the door, but they coixed him in, and pleased with his quarters, he has stayed in and become mur; fierce, terrible and destructive than ar'y iion ever was be fore. "A bright newspaper man out in Minneapolis has driven the brute a name. He describt s him as a species of the hippopotamus, because that ani mal has the thickest of hides, and the biggest of jaws, and fs the ugliest of all of God's creatures. How Noah and his family stayed in tlse same ark with a pair of them I havi,' never been able to understand. He colls the beast the Hippogat, aJid says of it: 'Look out, look o'lt, ye merchant men all Look out for the Kipixigat, Who eateth Industries great and small And waxeth so big" an-d fat. 'Cradles and coffins anl babies' milk, Oii, sugar, refined an. raw. Newspaper print anil the beldames' milk All go to tile moiiMtej's maw.' "The greedy protected industries of America first-demanded a 'home market,' and this was secured by legislative en actments under which the products of the manufacturers of other countries were kept out of the L'nlted States, and for eign competition was thus driven away, and the 'home market' secured. We paid for this concession to the favorite classes, but the Republican advocates of protec tion tried to make a credulous people be lieve when we said that the 'consumer paid the tax' that we were wrontr, that foreign manufacturers paid the tax.' And a majority of th- daily newspaper press of the Union sustained this conten tion and cried down the Democratic ar gument. But when the practical ques tion came .home to the nf wspaper people and the pape.r trust, fostered by an un just tariff, raised the price of printing paper five to Sen dollars a ton, they pretty soon discovered who paid tile tax. and one hundred and iifty-sevt'-n daily newspapers in ail sections of the Union demanded free paper ard free wood pulp, because the tariff on these articles was. as they said, a six n illion dollar tax on intelli gence, lienor, the nev sp.tpers joined the cry 'Bust thf; trusts." The tariff has driven out the foreign competition, the trust has destroyed home competition, and so we are at the mercy of the combines. They have lowered the price of the raw material, lessened the price of produc tion and raised the price. of the finished product. They have become the oniy pur chaser and the only stdie". Thev catch the American people coming and going. Competition, which is sail to be the life of trade, has been strangled to death. Monopoly reigns. The robber hand of the trust is at your throat and it is de manding 'Your monev or your life.' There are three hundred and fifty-three known trusts and more are beir.g daily organ ized. The American people believe in paying fair prices for raw material, and a just wage to the mechanic and work ing man, and reasonable profits to the manufacturer and the merchant as a re turn on capkal invested, the time con sumed, the Isbor employed and ttie risk incurred. But the trusts are not satis fied with thia; they demand more. Three billions of dollars of ir-perty in their hands is bv fa single strike of the pen doubled and becomes six billions, and the American peoole are compelled to Kiistain out of their pockets this, artificial esti mate. Is it a wonder thsit they are ris ing in Indignant wrath over the imposi tion and. demanding a remedy? Expedi ents haV" been irie-l. tint in vain. The so-called 1 federal antl-ti'ust law of 1S90 did not compass the deaih of the monster. The legislatures jf thirty states find their anti-trust bill3 useless. Something must be done. We are told, however, that the suppression of trusts cannot be made the issue between the parties because both the great political organizations are tile ene mies of trusts. REPUBLICAN RESPONSIBILITY FOR TRUSTS. "Sometimes, to escape capture and pun ishment, a person joins in the 'hue and cry' and loudly cabs 'Stop thief!' when he himself either is the actual perpetrator of the cf-ime or accessory to the act. So it is wijh the Rep-uMicai party in the matter if trusts. Thin of Ohio, the home of; Har.na. the Htate of McKinley. denouncing trusts. We are told that the national convention wf the Republican partv wUl be even more vehement than the tlemWratic convention In the denun ciation oV the wicked scheme of robbery of the people b these, combinations and combines. But we can and will make the issuv There is no hope of breaking down thse things by the aid of the Re publican, for they ar' offsprings of the Republic-tin party. 'bone of its bone, fleish of its flesh.' The American people bound hind and foot by the power of these trusts, whose existence is made possible "lv the destruction of competi tion, through unwis, tariff legislation, are struegiinsr once more for freedom. They are ready now to proclaim a new dec laration. They demand liberty. Lib erty to buy ami liberty to sell in open competitive markets. Tey will not quit the struggle. Marshaled under the Dem ocratic banner they arc determined to win. The combined powers of wealth cannot stay them, the strength of monop oly cannot overpower thei. On the folds of their banner is irscrlbl the words, 'Equal rights to all, -fxciusive privileges to none.' The plain, liberty loving people of this country, following the example of their Revolutionary Fire are ready to pledge to the cause 'Their lives, their for tunes and their sacred honors.' They will meet without fear the trfst enriched Re publican" hosts, and theOod of Justice wiii give them the victosy." Mr. Caruth spoke wo-rs of eulogy of William Jennings Bryf n, "the great apos tle c-? the pioin people;" and. referring to Tammanv.- esid that her -"past loyalty is an earnest of her future course. It mat ters not who ia tsiosen le ,der, she will be A A I WASH BURN COLLEGE I J TOPEKA, KANSAS. J Thirty Fifth Year. i. iiiHitfXTt TiAi JiTfl f fill On beautiful campus of 160 acres, two J llUullUil Lt UIUIIH. miles from State House. Electric cars J every twenty minutes. Topeka reached by four railroads. JnziTttriinn TiUirAtlirh Sixteen competent professors, special 111311 UIUUI lUUlUUgil. i9t8 in their departments. 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Therefore, do not waste time with others, but consult us at once and regain your kost health. There is a stage In every disease that can be cured. Have you passed that stage? If iot, do not experiment any longer, but copsult ns at once. Further more, we offer $1,000 to any one proving our credentials false. We make it an object to investigate ours. No other specialist offers such a fnir proposition. ONLY CURABLE CASES TAKEN. Best of reference and credentials. If you cannot call, write. Hundreds cured by mail. Hours from 9 to 12 a. m., 2 to S p. m. Evenings 7 to 9. Bandar morulas, from 10 to 12:30. 03co 60S Kansas Avenue, Over Huo Clothing: Start. Chicago Medical Institute, Topeka. Kansas. Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo The best summer line to the cool est summer resorts in the country. Round-trip tickets on sale June 25 to July 11 for $19. Return limit Oct. 31. T. L. KINO, Agent, Topeka. 'IIHII- found in 1900, as she has always been found, fighting the people's fight. She will not hang back when the crv of bat tle rings through the air. Lusty will be her war cry and deadiv her onslaught. The enemies of the people will find her tomahawk at their heads and around her wiewam will be hung the scalps of her slain." YOUNG WOMEN ARE TOO SKY From the New York Herald. Dr. Hartland Law. of San Francisco, who has been lecturing at the Berkeley Lyceum for the last two days on"High er Physical Conditions," believes that women should propose, as well as men. He thinks that men have had too much of a monopoly, and that it is about time to enter upon a new depar ture. Dr. Law's views have created a stir in feminine circles for he declared in his lecture that so many fine women would not be unmarried if the custom of the men "popping the question"were not so strong. "Now, this conventional method, "said Dr. Law to me yesterday, "of men pro posing is all right up to a certain point, but the women are not getting a fair show. Every young woman who be lieves that a man would make a good husband, and that he would be a fine father, should have the right to propose to him. Of course, some girls do, but a nnsuiiu BEiuimu numum mmmui g MBit E Taken at night stops the eter- H nal thinking by putting you j a to sleep. It feeds your braia gs so that it recovers its tone f s for the next day's toil. g All druggists sell it. S3 saissiusiiimauiuiuniuuiiiimsuima lias had a prosperous "the prospect for rtueh Active steps are in progress for College spirit is high, and the -K DELAY I CONSULT AT ONCE DRS. JOHNSTON WALSH, America's Greatest Specialists. Permanently Located in Topeka, Kansas Dr. H. Austin J ohnston is a graduate of one of the finest Medical Universities la the world, and has had great experience in hospital and private practice. Dr. Edward Walsh, formerly Chicago's leading specialist, is a graduate of Hush and Bennett Medical CoUeges, and was formerly President of St. Anthony's Hos pital. 1 via Santa Fe I i 3 mitK there are many whose shyness! prevents them from taking the stey. "Members of the gentler sex should cast aside conventionalities many times. I believe that if it were under stood that women should propose as well as men there would te 50 per cent more marriages. Also, I believe that the marriages would be happier, if the women proposed rat hen than the men in many instances, for a woman's in stinct is a great factor. Men may make mistakes, but women do so rarely. "My wife occasionally -;ays to me: 'Don't you have anjthing to do with that man.' I may have associated con siderably with him, but I soon discover that my wife is right." Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blaie is inclined to believe that Dr. Law's position on the subject of popping the-question is a good one in certain cases. "The trouble with some. of our finest young women," said she tc me, "Is that they are so afraid of being misunder stood that they do not give sufficient encouragement to young men. Natural ly it would be very distressing to a girl to have a young man feel that she wants him to marry her when he may not be in love with her. But there are many cases where the girl Is so diffident that she will not give sufficient en couragement to a youn man. "Take the case of a w.althy young woman who is admired by a poor young man. He is a worthy man, but his pride prevents him from asking for the hand of a wealthy girl. Why should not the young woman propose? "Many of the sweetest and loveliest young women are too shy. Their dif fidence is mistaken by young men for coldness. These young ;adi--s should overcome their undue shyness and give more encouragement to the men." Mrs. Klizabeth Cady fetantan also be lieves that women should have the conventional right to propose as well as men. She thinks that, generally speaking, members of the fair sex can and do "pop the question" with their eyes, and in many other coy fay 8, with out the formality of words. "Women," said Mrs. Stantofi, "should be independent and not dependent. We should stand equal with th" men in everything. If a woman should have a house, and a bank account, then she would have, a perfect right t1 propose. I believe that all women shotild try to be self-supporting. If there should be more independence of spirt women would not occupy the inferior position ihat they do. But for a wormian with out independent means to propose is simply a case of a person asking an other to clothe, feed and house her." Denver, Colorado Spring;, Pueblo and Return $19.00 via the 8aita Fa. Tickets on sale from June 2:th to Jury 11th. The only line having rock ba? -last track from Topeka to Colorado. No dust or dirt. Harvey eating houses. See T. L. King. Agt. Tacoma, Wash., t2S.85, via Santa Fe Roue. JVS

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t TOPEKA STATE JOURXAXj, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JTJIiV 5, 1899. it v. i f it (I 1 Raw as Beef From Eczema. Eczema is more than skin-deep. The disease itself, the real cause of the trouble, is in the blood, although all Buffering is produced through the ekin the only way to reach the disease, therefore, is through the blood. Mr. Phil T. Jones, of iliiersville, Ind., writes: "I hai Ecr-m thirty yrs. and after a reat dal of twarmeas my leg ws so raw and ana ore taas IE gaftf me cour.t pain. It finally lrie into a running so re .a rid bgan to spread and grow wore. For the past five or eix years 1 fcATe aiLffred unto.d arocy and had vn ui 1 aH iaepe of ever bdng -1 ree from the disease. 1 ajft X hTe been treated ef Xrr Km; of tite best 'i, m:n many blood jnedl- eiaes, ail in vaia. With r: 11 til falta left I Vlin t to take S. S. and !t apparently made the k ceema worse, fcnt I knew that this was the way the remedy got rid of the poison. Continuing S. S. 3.. trie eore beaied up entirely, the skin became clear and azncot&, and I vu cured perfectly." Swift's Specific is superior to other tuood remedies because it cures dis eases which they can not reach. It goes to the bottom to the cause of the dis ease, and will cure the worst case of Eczema, no matter what other treat ment has failed. It is the only blood remedy guaranteed to be purely rege table. QTor 'fesS? IRQ never fails to cure Eczema, Scrofula, Contagious Blood Poison, Cancer, Tet ter, Hheumatism, Open Sores, Ulcers, Boils, etc. Insist upon S. S. S.; nothing can take its place. Books mailed free to any addxew bj Ewift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. R03IAN" RUINS IN ENGLAND From the London Telegraph. Through systematic excavation ex tending over many years the 100 acres Inclosed within the wails of the ancient Romano-British city at SiVehester have yielded a. large crop of objects of great antiquarian value, which form quite an Imposing," collection in the Reading tnuseum. The division of the areas for exploration each year takes the lines of the ancient streets, as indicated by the difference in the color of the crops which are cultivated on the spot and already a little over half the site has been dug out, r-Heved of its treasures and restored to cultivation after the foundations of the ancient buildings have been careful ly planned and ph. .tographed. The re eults of last year's explorations ae now on exhibition for a few days in the apartments of the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington house, i he evidence they afford confirms the view already ac cepted that the site was occupied by a civil population and not by military. In addition to minor buildings a large, well-planned house of early date, sev eral fine hypocausts and a workshop have been unearthed, as well as a num ber of wells and pits, one of the latter liavir.g a. double row of wo. den stakes criven into the bottom, probabiy for the Impaling of wild animals. The remai.-s cf an earlier house were found beneath the large one, with a rare mosaic pave ment sufficiently intact to permit of knee slabs being pieced together and placed on exhibition. It was contrary to ancient government that human hones should be interred within the walls of a city, but evidently the mod ern evader of by-laws aid regulations had his prototype in remote days, since in a secret, out-of-the-way corner, some feet below the surface, has b-n found a jar full of calcined human bones. For the sum of $2.3h already spent upon them the excavations have given ample results, and it is hoped that the 415.330 still required by the exploration fund wm be forthcoming in order that the work may b" satisfactorily completed. CHAN CES AGAINST7 Q 1; AY. Almost Impossible to Secure the Eleven Missing Votes. Washington. July 3. There has appear ed In a paper here a canvas of the tan.l lng of on the question of admitting- ex-.-Vna-or Wuay the -a.i;. The total art-: For settling 23: against 31 doubtful. 1?., and senators n-t reach-'d 7 Tnere are vjrsncvs in Utan. I tela, war-, a.::ornia and Pennsylvania, thus i.--.tv:n.r The s;m with votes and requiring- 4-i to s-at Mr. Quay. T.ie ."aavass is Incomplete, for manv eeuators, owing to their i..ng a.-so"i.c: on fc rid persona: relations with Senator Quae, s wen as manv of the new men 1 ijso lutely decline to give an inu.-i -ion of J.ow tney will vote. A conshler'.c.ie num ber of others art in Eurooe or anv jm tneir homes and beyjn.t reach. or t-' wno are j?t down as for or uninst the Featit!- Qiliv. not ail have ,:-ornrrJt:d tnems.-ives. but t;i--ir standing in soni-. m etances is inferred from their previous a.:':on or Kn.wn op.inions. The t.ii-ie le,iv,es Mr. Qtiav in n-ed of 11 m re v..t-s. That is. b- must e.-u-e ja? r?.'':i' v.jtea taoulated as for Mr. yjay to get tie remain- tn th uouHtful column are pticed ulrv-rson. R..-s. Clark, iu.iries Poster om .s. M.niUn. Kenr.-y. Tali i ferro' Jiiyw.f-m. K-aa. IPCuniVr and Simon, i ie seven who wtr not reacheu were oi.ott. Beveri iire. Karris. Frve ro-l-e Va-tna! and M-Laur;n. The' ,.,a.rj wno vvtei gains: Corhett an J ur now J,s e.i .or- Quay ar(.: jones (Ark.i T-'l-e fc.ioup. Uear. Davis, Piatt. But;-- P,---i-oe. Bite. Proctor. Tuniel and S:.ner ti tnose not rea-.ted H trris and M--Iu-'n were iiairi aainst Cirt-ett. It h n r cred ited rt-re trom any ootunaV.le in form Won tnat i.an.e!, -3ear. Piatt (New v.-.ii, Bi-e Pro.-tor or 5p..or.er have Ch.inr.'-d' 'their I".'; -Mr- rxml-d, tt iit nv k-,.)wn tnat he is p:ao--d in th wrong column find as to Mr. Spooner. his de u ra -Lm a few we-ks ago t, igainst being nia'-ed in tne tvfnrmative column. Oxygenors at room 30, Columbian Bid. 1 7Gii2S5'i u is that when her ill little ones are born, they will be vigor ous and healthy. Her hopes will be fully realized if she will preDare herse'f dnriricr presrnaacv with M OTHER S FRIEND, the widely-known external haiment which so many women use. It not only paves the way for easy de livery, but insures strength and vig-or to the new-bora. Sold by lriicc't for St a bottle. THE RSaDFnIt P.EGtTLATOS CO.. AtlMta. G. Blood r 2 A 0r RAILROADJEWS. Frisco Employes' Hospital to Be Opened at Springfield. Announcement of the Date and Assessment Flan. ROAD TO GIVE $500 Yearly For the Support of the Institution. E. E. McLeod's Successor Oth er Kock Island Changes. Kansas City, July 5. The Kmployea' Hospital associa-tio-n of the Frisco line has been organized and incorcorated. and a suitable building for the g-eneral hospital for the treatment of sick and injured employes erected at Spring-field, Mo., which is owned by the association and will be in charge of it3 chief sur geon. This building will be ready for occupancy August 1. Arrangements will be made with hos pitals at St. Louis, Fort Smith, Paris, Texas; Joplin, Pittsburg and Wichita for treatment in cases of emergency, until the patient can be safely removed to Springfield. Supply stations, for dis pensing purposes, will be established, at such convenient points on the line as shall be found necessary. Patients received at the hospital will be provided, free of charge, with everything neces sary for their careful and comfortable treatment, including the services of the hospital surgeons or physicians, so long as they require surgical or inedical at tention and obey the rules established for their protection, but not longer than one year, without special authority from the trustees. For the purposes of carrying into ef fect the above system and to enable all employes to become members of and entitled to ail the benefits and privileges of said association. General Manager Yoakum announces to all concerned that, commencing with, the wages for July, which are payable in August, an assessment will be made on the pay rolls (including salary vouchers), as fol lows: Thirty-five cents per month from the pay of each employe whose monthly wages amount to less than $30 a month, 5oc per month from the pay of each employe whose monthly wages amount to J 50 and less than $loO; Toe per month from the pay of each employe whose monthly wages amount to $100 and less than $1-3. ?I per month from the pay of each employe whose monthly wages amount to S125 and more, deductions to apply to time checks as well as pay rolls. The Frisco company is assessed $3j0 per annum for the support of the hospital. ROCK ISLAND CHANGES. E. E. 2ffcLeoda Successor Choasn Other Vacancies Filled. The election of Eben E. McLeod to the chairmanship of the Western Passenger association has brought about several changes and promotions in the passen ger department of the Rock Island. Charles Kennedy, general eastern pas senger agent of the road at New York, will take McLeod's place as assistant general passenger and ticket agent. Mr. Kennedy will be succeeded by W". J. Leahy, who is now passenger agent for the middle district at Philadelphia. Hal S. Kay. traveling passenger agent of the company at Pittsburg, will take Mr. Leahy's place at Philadelphia. UNION PACIFIC TRADE. Delp'nos Makes a Good Showing of Out and In Shipments. Delphs. July 5. This town makes a good showing in the last year in the business transacted by the L'nion Pa cific road, and the Republican brags about it in saying that Delphoa handled more carload lots than any town on the Solomon Valley branch of the Union Pacific. I There was- forwarded S3T car loads as follows: 502 wheat. 2S7 stock, 43 flour. 3 miscellaneous. Car loads received: 107 of coal, 64 corn. 64 lumber, 35 st.x'k, 5 salt. 20 miscellaneous, making a grand j total of 1.132 car loads. In the same I period there was 1.710 telegrams sent out j and l.H. received, besides l.bOo pieces of baggage received and 1,710 for warded. ROCK ISLAND OPPOSITION. Enterprising Liveryman Takes Ad vantage of Delay of New Time Schedule at SIcFarland. Alma. July 5. Since the new schedule time of Rock Island night trains has been in effect, much complaint has been 1 made on account of the S)5 minute lay- j over which both trains make at McFar- land. The passenger from the east arrives in Alma at 2:55 a. m., after remaining at McFarland one hour and thirty-five minutes. Tne eastbound Rock Island passenger passes through Alma at 12:55 and makes a similar layover. An enterprising Alma liveryman has established a bus line between Alma and McFarland, meeting the Rock Is land eastbound "ftjrer" in the morning and th- westbound -flyer" in the even ing. Traveling men have patronized this bus line liberally. UNION PACIFIC FLYES. Makes a Record Breaking Run Be tween "Wamago and Salina. Salina. July 5. The IT. P. flyer came in at record breaking speed last Satur day night It started out late from Kan sas City and made up some little time on the run to Salina. An average speed I cf something over 60 miles an hour was attained, counting in stops. One of the brakemen timed a five-mile stretched i this side of Wamego. and found it was J made in a little over four minutes. BTunnewell Branch Change. Wellington, July 5. A new supple mental time card has gone into effect on the Hunnoweli branch. No changes 1 in the time of the departure and arrival of trains are effected, except that the train will hereafter run to Kramen, O. T.. every day instead of three times a week as heretofore. The register of em- J ployes and branch terminal were re- i moved from Hunnewel! to Eramen. Trains 4.Q and 4.10 from Hunnewell to Eramen are cancelled by the new 1 time card and from Bramen. O. T., to Augusta. Kansas, the trains will be numbered as 423 and 426 as they were from Hunnewell to Augusta. New Santa Fe Depot. CofTeyville, July 3. The old passenger depot of the Santa Fe has been moved a hlock north, between Sixth and Sev enth streets and is being remodeled into a freight depot. It is on the west side of the main track, and switches will be built to it. At present all the switches axe east of the main track, and the new ones or the west will give the Santa Fe much larger yards. A long platform is being built around the new freight depot and other improvements are noted. Irrproving Coffeyvillo Branch. Coffey ville. July 5. A gang of work men have commenced the laying of steel rails and track grading on the Coffey Ville branch of the Santa Fe at Liberty. The work was completed that far last fall, and it is now begun where it was discontinued then. The track will be re constructed clear into this city. THAT "CURTIS LAW.' Correspondent Telia "What Effect It Has Had on Indian Territory. To the Editor of the State Journal. We learn by the papers that the Hon. Chas. Curtis is liable, very liable to ex perience the weight of that cloven-foot that has worked so much disaster to reg-ulated schemes among day-dreamers of political ambitions. The people in this territory, if they are alive to any one truth more than another it is to the fact that in all matters of politics they are supposed to play dead. That since, long since it has been the policy of the country to treat with manifest allowance and charita ble indifference anything, by way of suggestion, emanating from the brain of a denizen of this country; holding to the opinion that all good Indians died young. There is a lurking suspicion extant that it is the purpose of the gov ernment to not allow this territory a voice in governmental matters until all this blood, kin and kith have been gath ered to their fathers. When it transpires that the inhabi tants hereof become imbued with the enthusiasm of the hour over politics; enter into the spirit of a national cam paign with the zeal and ardor that marks that period in the states, there is no safety valve offered them in an elect-on day when they can go and effer vesce, and boil over and simmer down and cool off; but with his pent up Vtica of thought and feeling, he goes about all day in something the attitude of one inviting a soul stirring kick. A territory with upwards of a half million of inhabitants with not a voice in congress to represent them: being perfectly at the mercy of outsiders to do with his helpless condition as they see fit. So lies his prostrate form be fore the people of this government. Barring Maine, she has a territory as great as New England, and with re sources, mineral wealth, fertility of soil, and a climate vastly superior to those states in whose combined representa tion in congress, in the senate aione, amounts to ten. Yet because this terri tory protests at being made the tail of Oklahoma's kite, she is given but little encouragement in her ambition to be come a state in the near future. Kansas came into the L'nion with only about one-half the population that this country has today, hence it follows that the people of this socalled Ave civilized tribes view with no little concern any mention made of a possible contingency in politics that would result so disastrously to their in terests. Up to this time the voice of Curtis has been like the voice of John the Baptist crying in the wilderness, and any effort to waylay him would be looked upon by this people as a very grave matter in view of his unfinished work. The territory when the Curtis law went into effect was a howling wilder ness. The rapid settlement of Kansas, Arkansas and Texas quite surrounding this territory, together with Oklahoma, had the effect to expel largely, the floating class of outlawry from those states across the borders into this coun try, in numbers suggestive of birds of refuge in the winter time, where they found a home congenial both in climate and topography and in all respects suit ed to their tastes and purposes. Many of them intermarrying; with the natives, settling down and making homes. The laws of the different tribes taking cog nizance only of crimes between their own citizens. The United States courts were in a great measure powerless, in conse quence of the protection offered by the many advantages offered by the topo graphy of the country and the fact that the sentiment of the average of many of the citizens was inimical to the courts. Thus It was that crime was rampant and the criminal could scout for years in comparative safety. The dense wood land, the canebrake, the deep mountain gorge proffered a perfect asylum that iie could fiy to, if hotly pursued, as a dernier ressort and still be in easy ac cess of his friends. The Curtis law was an innovation and effected a complete revolution. It established new courts; abolished tribal courts and made all amenable to the United States courts. These courts in lieu of sittings as formerly out of the territory, viz., one at Ft. Smith, Ark., the other at Paris. Texas, were made numerous, corresponding to district and justices courts in the states, and were conveniently located as was best suited to cater to the wants of the population and in view of the lay of the country, Each, court was installed with a full complement" of officers. The effect was magical. It has only been one year since the Curtis law went into effect but that year has wrought wonders. The woods have been scoured for criminals. They have been hunted down and run out of the seclusion, where they have been in biding; some killed in capturing, some waiting upon trial in prison and many serving out sentences in eastern prisons where they went in carload lots: whilst others have paid the penalty of their infraction of the law by death by the most approved plan, a la rope. The percentage of crime Is diminish ing fast. Under the new regime the feeling of security to life and property (s fast taking possession of the people. There were portions of this country en tirely unsafe not only for strangers to pass through, but even neighbors, liv ing a few miles apart would leave beat en patn.i and trails, through the feel ing of insecurity and take their course through the brush, deeming it safer. Towns are now regularly organized and generally have good governments. But the work instituted by Curtis is only fairly begun:-it needs the master hand to carry it to completion. Curtis is the congressman-at-large of his peo pde: he is in everybody's mouth; his only voice they know. He is their only exponent, their only mouth piece in the halls of congress. We can't speak ad visedly of the needs and wants of the First Kansas congressional district; We are not disposed to think any less of Mr. Curtis when we read how the great Octopus has his eye sot on him and is about to gulp him dowm. All we can say is when in our mind's eye we look into the yawning cavity and figurative ly speaking hang a hold of one leg in our zeal to save him from the rapacious appetite of that vermint.we can't spare him. I. D. BURDICK. Fort Gibson, I. T. a Sears the of C3 Bears tie Big-utsxe ef l!i3 Rind Y53 Hassnws Bcr. Tne tsi Ysis ten Aiwars Bfi2S FOURTH AT MANILA. The Day Is Celebrated by All In True American Style. Manila, July 5. There was a great celebration of the Fourth here, with fireworks, bands, speeches and decora tions everywhere, all nationalities participating. The foreign ships and consulates. Including the Spanish, raised their colors in conjunction with the Etars and stripes The flagship Balti more fired a national salute at noon. All nationalities enjoyed what the Spanish papers termed the "Fiesta of INortii America." Newsboys shouted Fourth of July editions, soldiers pa raded the town, throwing firecraekera from the batteries on the water front In the afternoon the Luneta was crowded with Americans, Filipinos and Spaniards. There were thousands of pedestrians and hundreds of carriages went there for the concert, directed by Bandmaster Carl Brandt, of the Sixth artillery band A hundred Fili pinos played American tunes. Several hundred boys and girls, Fili pinos, Spaniards and Chinese, from the public schools, each carrying an Ameri can Hag, sang "America" in a curious mixture of dialects. Chaplain Knuds den of the Washington regiment read the .Declaration of Independence. Colonel Ienby presided at the cele bration at the Soldiers' club, where Mr. O. F. Williams, U. S. consul general and others delivered addresses. The offi cers of the Colorado regiment gave a reception at the regimental barracks and there were several dances during the evening. A general celebration at night was rendered impracticable by the law re quiring the street to be cleared at half past eight. The negotiations between the Spanish officers and Filipinos have resulted in a partial agreement The in surgents have promised to release the sick soldiers, who number several hun dred and the civil officials but they intend to keep the friars, expecting that the church will Anally pay a heavy ran som. It is reported that the civilian prison ers are being concentrated at Tarlac and Apparrit, as well as some of the other ports recently opened, from which they could be shipped to Manila. The Spaniards assert that the Filipinos are impressing all the military prisoners into engineering, hospital and clerical work. Tomorrow the Bennington will take Prof. Schurman. president of the U. S. advisory commission for the Philippines, to Hong Kong, from which point he w ill sail for Japan, to pay a short visit there before leaving for the United States. Admiral Dewey, Colonel Den by, prof. Worcester and Prof. Schur man will meet in Washington during the autumn to complete a report of the commission's labors. The commission recently investigated the question of currency and theChinese problem, as it presents itself here. A large majority of business men wish to continue on a silver basis. There are a few, however, who favor a gold basis or the adoption of the Japanese system. The Filipinos are anxious to exclude Chinese labor. On the other hand, many large employers prefer Chinamen, as serting that they are more efficient, al though the element of cheapness doubt less influences this view. MILES THE ORATOR And Guest of Sherman at Mansfield, Ohio. Mansfield, Ohio, July 5. General Nel son A. Miles, whois the guest of John Sherman, to whom the general is re lated by marriage, was the orator of the day yesterday afternoon at the celebra tion of Fourth of July atHeinman park. The ex-secretary and senator was un able to participate on account of his health, or to accompany the command ing general, but every attention was shown General Miles here and he was accorded an ovation wherever he went. He was introduced at the park by Gen eral R. Brinkerhoff and tendered ova tions both before and after his address. General and Mrs. Miles left last night for Washington. ANNA GOULD'S HUSBAND "Writes a Sharp Letter to the Prince of Monaco. Paris, July 5. Comte Boni de Castel lane, who married Miss Anna Gould, has addressed a communication to the Prince of Menaco sharply criticising the Prince of Monaco sharply criticising the Dreyfus, inviting her and her husband to sojourn at his chateau after the prisoner's acquittal, of which the prince expressed himself as confident. The comte, who charges the prince with "in terfering in an affair in which he is in now way concerned." says: "If. as a foreign sovereign, you thought you could influence French officers in the grave verdict they are about to pronounce, I beg you to note that we don't stand on an equal footing as none of us would condescend to call to account a prince who is under tutel age. "You are, perhaps, a relative of Drey fus by marriage, but in that case it is premature to triumph. If, on the other hand, it is as a protector of gambling houses that you intervene, permit me to tell you that Dreyfus himself would dispense with your services." Fell $55,000 Short. Cincinnati, O. July 5. Although the golden jubilee Saengerfest of the North American Saengerbund was a great suc cess here last week, from a musical standpoint, the l.cal committee now finds a deficit of $55,000, w-ith the great hall still unfinished. The committee will be relieved by subscriptions from prom inent citizens. NO HUMBUG HERE. Topeka Endorcement Is What Counts With, the Topeka Public You can't fool the public all the time. They will find you out at last. Every time a man is fooled Another skeptic is made. Many the remedy that makes the skeptic Because it fails to keep its promises. Doan's Kidney Pills bring renewed reward. They cure the skeptic. Plenty of proof of this at home. Topeka proof for Topeka people. Here's a case of it: Mrs. B. D. Williams of 118 East Sev enth street, says: "I was troubled more or less with my kidneys ail my life, and last winter, ISaS, we had a good deal of sickness and I over-taxed myself. My whole system seemed t be out of re pair and severe pains in my back and head made me think at times I would lose my senses. I got Doan's Kidney Pills at Rowley Snow's drug store and the results of their use were as tonishing. My general system was toned up and I was relieved of the trouble with my back and kidneys." Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers: price 50 cents. Mailed by Fos-ter-Miiburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the Unite;! States. Remember the name Doan's and take no substitute. NATIONAD LEAGUE. AT PHILADELPHIA. Score by innings; Brooklyn i 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 17 Philadelphia 0 1 4 0 0 .j 0 2 10 Batteries Brooklyn. Dunn and Grimm; Philadelphia, FriZier and McFarland. At tendance, 11.S57 Second garc-..: Brooklyn 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 01 4 'i Philadelphia 2 2012011 9 13 0 Batteries Brooklyn. Hughes and Grimm: Philadelphia. Ma&ee and ilcFar land. Attendance ll,24i. AT BALTIMORE. Score by innings: Baltimore 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 Boston 0 0010000 01 Batteries Baltimore, Kitson and Robin son: Boston. Lewis and Bergen. Second game; Baltimore 3 it 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 8 2 Boston 0 i) 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 t 12 1 Batteries Baltimore, Howell and Robin son; Boston, Nichols and "Clarkex AT NEW YORK. Score bv innings; New York 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 02 Washington 0 0 1 u 0 3 0 1 05 Batteries New York. Carrick and War ner: Washington, Weyhing and Kittredge. Second game: New York 0 0000000 0 0 6 2 Washington 0 0 0 o 1 0 1 0 0 2 5 0 Batteries New York. Seymour aod War arid Warner; Washington, Weyiiing and AT PITTSBURG. Score by innings; R "H E Pittsburg 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 l" 13 i Cleveland 0 1 2 l 0 0 0 0 0 03 9 1 Batteries Pittsburg! Hoft'er and Bower man Cleveland, Hugfiey and Sugden. Second game: R. IT. E. Pittsburg ...1 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 7 13 4 Clev eland ..0 00003020000 15 11 3 Batteries Pittsburg; Sparke. Tannehill and Bowerman; Cleveland, Schmidt and Schrecon'ost. AT CINCINNATI. Score by innings: Louisviiu- 2 0 0000010000 25 Cineinna; i Hi 0110000 0 00 3 ti Batteries Cincinnati, Hahn and Peitz; Louisville, Dowiing ai,d Powers. Second game: R. IT. E. Cincinnati 10410300 9 m 3 Louisville 0 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1". 3 Batteries Cincinnati, Phillips and Peitz, Wood; Louisville, Cunningham and Zim-mer. NATIONAL LEAftUE STANDING. Won. Lost. P.C. I Brooklvn- 43 21 .2 Philadelphia 3d 24 .619 Chicago 3 24 .61 Boston 40 2d .fi?i t Baltimore 37 2i .573 i St. Louis 3i3 21 .557 1 Cincinnati 34 20 .54) j Pittsburg 3:1 32 .50-5 New York 30 35 .452 Louisville .23 43 .34 i Washington 21 47 .309 Cleveland 12 52 JSS WESTERN, LEAGUE. AT KANSAS CITY. Score by innings: P H E. Kansas City 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 06 3: 1 Milwaukee 210O0 10O 15 7 2 Batteries Gear and Wilson; Rettger, Hart and Speer. AT MINNEAPOLIS. Score by innings: R. H. E. Minneapolis 0 0200020 04 5 2 St. Paul 0 0010000 01 4 2 Batteries Menefee and Fisher; McGill, Fisher and Spies. Afternoon game: R H E St. Paul 2 0000000 02' 5 3 Minneapolis 0 2010000 03 S 2 Batteries KatoLl and Spies; Parker and Fisher. AT BUFFALO. Score by innings; Bufralo 0 0000000 0 1' 1 3 Detroit 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 i 5 5 Batteries Amole and Hausen; Frisks and Shaw. Afternoon game: R. IT. E. Detroit 1 0220100 06 3 Buffalo 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 05 S 2 Batteries Gaston and Bueiow; Gray and Diggins. AT INDIANAPOLIS. Score by innings: Indianapolis 0 1 0 3 2 1 1 4 12 12' 2 Columbus 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 ti 12 5 Batteries Foreman and Kahoe; Brlgrgs MeAuley. Afternoon game: R. H. E- Indiananolis 0 0000000 0 0 5 1 Columbus 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 OO3 S 4 Batteries Kellum and Kahoe; Wad dell and Buckley. WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING. Won. Lost. P.C. .37 25 .597 I .34 20 .57 i .33 2S .533 I ..31 30 -5US .2S 32 .475 .20 34 .4i0 I .23 34 .452 j .27 3S .439 I Indianapolis Columbus Detroit St. Paul Milwaukee Kansas City Buffalo EMPORIA BEATS ST. JOE. First game: R. H. E. Emrjoria 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 St. Joseph 0 0 0 0 00 3 0 In the second game the visitors were outplayed at every point and were again snut out. Score: R. IT. E. Emporia 2 4 O 0 1 3 1 0 11 17 3 St. Joseph 1) 0 i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 Batteries (For both games) Drummy and Warner; Trac, and Heniey. LIQUID AIR FROM VENDERS A Nickel a Gallon the Price of the Iuxury. Xew York. July a. Push-cart venders will soon sell Iicjuefled air at a nickel a" gallon, and every house will have its own cooling apparatus. A plant capa ble of turning out 1,500 gallons of liquid air daily has been established in West Thirty-third street and a company ex pects to put the discovery on the mar ket within a short time as a commercial product. The air is produced with comparative cheapness and will be sold as a refrig erant and as a source of power. The promoters of this new novelty gave a public exhibition yesterday of their ap paratus and demonstrated that they could produce air much cheaper than any one else. The apparatus for pro ducing the air is the Ostergren-Burger process. While the system follows Trip let's invention In the main, the insula tion used by the Ostergren and Burger to prevent the absorption of w-armth from the surrounding atmosphere ap pears to be more effective. Tripler roughly estimated the cost of produc tion a gallon of liquid air at his plant to be about 20 cents. Ostergren and Burger appear to get it for from 8 to 10 cents at present, although they hope to improve on these figures. With a steam engine capable of de veloping 200 horse power in a day of 24 hours an output of about 1,500 gallons have been obtained. The new experi menters in this interesting line of work have invented a motor for utilizing the stored energy of liquid air, and hope for a patent within a few weeks. Al ready they have a tiny turbine operated by a jet of valorized liquid, and this turbine drives a fan. Rooms occupied by people can thus be conveniently cool ed. It is thought that by using the liquefying apparatus in place of an am monia plant cold storage may be had as cheaply as by any other method. It has been a puzzling matter hitherto to nut liouid air up in a convenient shape for transportation. It was found to be unsafe to enclose it in sealed re ceptacles, because evaporation was sure So take place, and the pressure w-hieh would thus be exerted from the interior upon the walls of the containing vessel would be ruinous. But a. plan has been devised for obviating this difficulty, yet THOMPSON'S EXTRA Piano and Furniture Polish WILL IMPART TO YOUR FURNITURE THE WARM TONE AND SOFT LUSTRE THAT IS SO ATTRACTIVE TO THE EYE. THOMPSON'S POLISH TOIPSO.YS POLISH THOMPSON'S POLISH S AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY CITY AND TOYVj. j I THOMPSON BROS., 2 626 Kansas Avenue. JjJ Otit V ii d a y 11 j v M l v v Viliiv'viiiiivutiiliiivvil fen tflteMiJi I t 'Tis Cool- in Colorado. "A Colorado Summer" is the title of a profusely illustrated book that telis of the delights of a sojourn in the mountain region. 'Tis free. Very Low Rates from June 25 to July II. Ask T. L. King, Agent, Topeka, sbout tbem. HI III Ml III HI l4 without allowing extensive waste. A vessel that has double metallic walls holds the fluid, and the air which evap orates on escaping from the inner re ceptable flows out between the two me tallic walls, but it is kept there under pressure. A safety valve prevents any serious tension and yet discourages the volatilizing process. The vessels here described is enclosed in a much larger one of wicker or simi lar material and excelsior is packed be tween it and the outer walls of the res ervoir. In these receptacles the com pany will put the air on the market at a low figure. A HUSBAND WANTED. Built on the Golden Rule Plan Re- quest to Mayor Jones. Toledo, Ohio, July 5. Mayor Jones Is the busiest man in ten states, and yet his sphere of industry has still greater and more novel possibilities. A fair maiden lady from Newcastle, Ohio, whose name Mr. Jones refuses to make known, has asked Mayor Jones to find her a good, loving husband. She writes that she has read so much of Mr. Jones' golden rule and brotherhood doc trines that she is anxious to have an application of them in her case The writer says she is unmarried and has business cares that render a husband a desirable adjunct to her household. She says she dees not like to keep com pany with the young men in her neigh borhood because she lives alone and their coming to the house on visits of courtship might "create remarks." She sets forth that she owns a small farm and describes the sort of man she wants. She also describes herself as being fair- FINE Is what you have always desired for your furniture. It Instantly removes the white, faded out, dusty and dingy appearance, developing instead the greatest beauty of the wood, while en riching its color in a. remarkable man ner and imparting the warm tone and soft lustre so universally admired. Can be applied by anyone with but little work,, and as brilliant a fiuish wiil be produced as If expert labor had been employed. This polish 13 a new dis covery and is far superior to anything now on the market, for two reasons, one of which is that the finish is per manent, and the other rep son is that the effect produced on any varnished surface Is that of an enameled finish of a lustrous, undying beauty 'that neither dust nor time appears to affect. With this polish furniture that 01.ee attracted no attention now becomes -a. source of continual delight. There beig no greasy oils nor injurious acids in tfiis composi tion to attract dust, your fnrnature will never again present a. failed out and displeasing appearance. On the con trary, an air of quiet refinement is im parted to the whole house by its use. May be equally well used ujon .stained, painted or inlaid woods, enameled iron beds, white wicker chairs or any var- M nished surface whatever. Friee 25 cents "S a bottle. Full directions on'bottle. NEW DESIGNS m UN INiiW Wall Paper IN OUR NEW STORE L. arsh Co. U6 W. 8th St. I I I Go There via Santa Fe. twin imnniMmmiitmi mi in pi f w use r J Kohl's Pihcaniatism Cure J ly good looking and of a cheerful dis position. Mayor Jones has not stated that he will help her out, but the chances are he wiil try and find the man for her she so much desires. Tour in the Rocky Mountain. The "Scenic Line of the World." the Denver Rio Grande railroad, offers to tourists in Colorado, Utah and New Mexico the choicest resorts, and to the transcontinental traveler the grandest scenery. Two separate and distinct routes through the Rocky Mountains, all through tickets available via either. 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i TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING', JULY 5, 1899- TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL By FRANK P. MAC LENNAJf. VOLUME XXVI... ...No. 18 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas town where this paper has a carrier svstem. en By mail, one year jJJ By mail, three month? "j Weekly edition, one year PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Building. C02 Kansas avenue, corner of t-icntn NF.W YORK OFFICE. Temple Court Bids.. A. Frank Richardson. Mp. CHICAGO OFFICE. Stork Exchange Butldlnr. A. Frank Richardson. Mjr. IXINPON OFFICE. 12 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. Reporters' Room Bed Phone 5.7 Subscribers of the State Journal durinsc the Burnrner may have the paper mailed regularly each day to any ad dress at the rate of thirty cents a month. No subscriptions taken for less than thirty cents. AddreBS changed as often as desired. It -will be noted that quiet and peace are not synonomous terms in the Phil ippines. A dramatic critic refers to Bern hardt's recent role as the 'Princess of Denmark." If Alger should be elected to the sen ate. Miles may yet have an opportunity to close up the Philippine war. Before Ions, the public may expect to read in the magazines how Col. Bill Coebel managed that Kentucky Demo cratic convention. Nature, at least, appears to be taking the czar at his word. If there Is to. be no more fighting, girls are just as use ful to him as boys. Why should Joe "Wheeler be sent to the Philippines when Funston is al ready there? But there is no room for wonder when it is remembered who is secretary of war. Having succeeded in photographing the interior of a man's stomach, the next thing the scientists probably will do, is to look into bis head and see what he is thinking about. Assistant Secretary of War Meikle john, has followed the lead of his chief and is out for a Nebraska senatorship. These war heroes are not in any way backward about coming forward. The New York Herald has taken a poll of the senators in congress on the question of seating Matthew S. Quay, appointed by Governor Stone, and it finds that 33 will vote to seat Quay, 31 will vote no, 15 are non-committal and 1 cannot be reached. Apparently there is more woe in stonre for Mr. .W ana maker. Minneapolis Tribune: The Schley rontroversy, before the fiavy depart ment abandoned it, seems to have sim mered down to a question of what th New York Sun says that Capt. Chad wlck says that Lieutenant Commander Heilher says that Commander Hodgson says that Rear Admiral Schley said on the bridge of the Brooklyn during the progress of the fight with. Cervera's fleet. This is about as attenuated as the gossip of an ancient dames' tea party. It is shown in the latest reports from the commercial agencies that there is a steady continuance of the boom which the business interests of this country have been enjoying for some time. The six months of this year that have pass ed have established a record for volume and activity of business. There have been fewer business failures in those months than in the corresponding per iod of any one of the pa9t 17 years, and the liabilities are smaller than in the same periods of any year since 1SSI. The iron trade is so rushed with orders that it cannot keep up with them. There Is delay in the ship-building industry because steel plates cannot be turned out fast enough to supply the demand. The wool market is looking up and growers and manufacturers will receive better prices for their products than they have been getting in a number of years. NEW YORK'S BICYCLE LAW. In New York a law has been passed making all the bicycle ordinances in the Btate uniform. That is, the state law becomes the ordinance of every city re garding bicycle riding. The state ordi nance is so framed as to not allow bi cycle, riders to be unjustly treated on account of mere technicalities and yet It makes them fully responsible for any encroachment upon the rights of oth ers. What constitutes sidewalks or by faths upon which bicycles may or may not be run is definitely defined. In this regard the law says bicycles shall not be excluded from "footpaths or portions of public roads lying outside of cities and towns which are worn only by travel, and which are not improved by the public authorities or by the abut ting owners." Alarms may be given by bell or whistle or any other means that can be heard 100 feet. Wheels must bear lights at night, but no one can be prosecuted for a violation of this re quirement whose light has accidentally gone out or who happeris to be caught away from home without his lantern and is on his way home. But pedallers without a light must not ride more than six miles an hour and must keep up an intermittent sounding of bell or whis tle. One feature of the law is that bicycles may travel as fast as any other kind r class of vehicle Is allowf d to travel. GLOBE SIGHTS From the Atchison Globe. You should remember that people are fluick to "notice" things. The scare ty of men should never re sult in making a poor one more desir able, but it unfortunately dues. A man has not only to light against the possibility of what a woman finds out, but also what she dreams about him. If a woman is truly fond of her hus band, she believes he is "coming down with something" every time he falls off in his feed. Women will trust their daughters with men under conditions in which, they would not trust their husbands with other women. There is nothing in the theory that horse shoes bring- good luck. What animal works harder than the horse, or is treated worse in its old age? Yet it wears four of them. When a young girl speaks of the twilight being so restful, it is not fair to remind her of the time when she will spend that hour hustling cross chil dren off the streets, and into bed. When a banker goes to a church he has not been in the habit of attending, there is great excitement among the Old Guard, who think perhaps they have captured him, and begin to figure on how much tie will Give. The kind of people who will cry at a theater will walk to the front and con fess religion at a revival, if properly worked upon. Both indicate an emo tional temperament, and the work of the actor is as lasting as that of the preacher. Did you ever count tip how manv times in the course of a day you tell a lie, even though you consider yourself a truthful person? You tell a lie when a friend asks if a new hat is becoming when you praise something your hos tess cooks, and when you say you hail a good time, in bidding her goodbye. You must lie or offend a hundred a day, and you naturally prefer to lie. Its ef fects may be as bad as those of giving offense, but they are not so apparent. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. There are some things we do in this world that must puzzle even the devil to account for. What a woman will not forgrive a man for she herself does not know till she comes to do it. The innocence of a baby cuts deeper than anything else when we haven't got it ourselves. t The time we appreciate charity Js when we haven't gut any of it to spare for anybody else. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. A' smile travels much farther than a sigh. Don't blame the whipped, cream for turning sour. Two heads make a close mouth If of the opposite sex. One glimpse of a dental sign will oft ease an aching molar. Glue may be obtained from pigs' feet and sugar from a hogs-head. When a. man is all broke up he sees the necessity of mending his ways. The workingmen provide the carriage for the walking delegate to ride in. A man always wonders what his wife will say after the company has de parted. What man needs is a tongue that will stop wagging when his brain steps thinking. The average man spends a lot of time searching for what he hopes he won't find. No wander time flies when the spur of the moment Is continually urging it on. t A little authority or a few dried ap ples will puff a small man up astonish ingly. It's a waste of time to explain your actions. People prefer to form their own conclusions. The proudest moment In the average man's life is when he is telling how it happened afterward. JAYHAWKER JOTS. Mr. Perfect lives in Jewell City. A Pratt county hen has laid a big egg with a map of the Philippines on the shell. Hutchinson Is having a terrific strug gle trying to land an opera house, but it bids fair to succeed. The Kansas mouth is now getting ready for "roastin" ears." Kansas al ways has something good on hand. Lew Headley sadly observes that the sure thing in politics is about as safe as a straight tip on a horse race. Kansas papers are all talking about rural delivery now. A route will be started out of Jewell City on August 1. Recent press reports sent out from Independence indicate that Dave Leahy has a well developed understudy down there. At the celebration at Salina yester day, there was a colored men's race in which the prizes wer a razor and a watermelon. "Watermelons are in our midst," re marks the editor of the Lindsborg Rec ord, "that is. in the midst of those of us win: can afford to buy them." The Reflector already has Ed Little scheduled for a Fourth of July speech in Abilene next year, and says he will tell all about how the war was "fit." 1 ipton and Hunter postoffices in Mitchell county are only seven miles from one another, but a letter travels over 200 miles in going from one post office to the other. With four million bushels of old wheat in her granaries, any- amount in the shock, a big corn crop coming on, and forty-seven million dollars in the bank, Kansas feels pretty .well, thank you. One of the attractions of the Fourth celebration at Solomon was a red headed man wrapped from his head to his heels in brown cloth, and with his head bare. He represented a. lighted cigar. Apology from Lew Headley: "We re ceived a letter from Rev. Mr. Williams yesterday and took the liberty to print it. If he is mad about it we may have to whip him when he gets back to town." Abilene lays claim to the 17-foot snake recently killed near Augusta. The Reflector says it is the same snake that used to be up around Sand Spring:-, just west of Abilene, in the early eighties. Abilene's drinking water comes from Sand Springs. "The flambeau club will have final drill this evening on the street, but without their clothes as the boys want to save them for tomorrow." is the way a notice read that was sent to the Ab ilene Refiector. There was a large at tendance of spectators at the driil. Government ownership argument from the Salina Republlcan-Journal: Jonn Buchi has received a letter from a relative in Switzerland, who says that for $6 in American money a per son can purchase a railroad ticket which enables him to travel as much and as often as he pleases all over Switzerland good for one year. The railroads are owned by the government. There are 2".0,000 bushels of old corn on the town site of Jewell City, to say nothing of hundreds of thousands of bushels in the farmers' cribs in the country around, and the Republican says it will take some tall hustling to get the old corn out of the country if the new crop comes in right. Every body will want to shell and ship at once, and the demand for shellers and men and cars will be greater than the supply. The story is told that a dignified and portly judge down at Winfield attended a ball a short time ago, wearing a pair of extremely tight-fitting trousers. Dur ing the evening he was horrified to find that a thread had broken in one of the seams, producing a bad rip. He beck oned to his wife and told her of his pre dicament. She procured a needle and thread and they entered an ante room at one side of the hall. Just as the judge had removed his trousers two la dies were heard coming towards the same room. The Judge looked around for a place to hide. His wife saw a door leading apparently into a closet. Open ing it she thrust her husband through and bolted it, and then turned with a smile to meet the ladies, but at the same time there came a terrible thump ing on the door and a voice roared, "Open this door quick! I'm in the ball room." CALLS ON ALGER TO RETIRE From the New York Sun.l In the case of the Hon. Russell 'A. Alger, secretary of war in, President McKinley's cabinet, there are certain considerations of delicacy which, can not fail to impress any- mind capable of correct perception and clear fore sight. Mr. Alger has decided to transfer his activities from the administrative to the legislative field of usefulness. His am bition to be senator from Michigan is entirely legitimate and laudable. To further hiscandidacy Mr. Alger has formed an open and avowed partner ship With a political potentate in his own state, nominally- a Republican, but really a strange blend of the Populist, the anti-expansionist, the Chicago plat form statesman, and the boss with a largeand heterogeneous personal follow ing. If Governor Pingree- is indeed a Republican, in regard to all the great issues that will enter Into the next presidential election, then Mr. McKin ley is something else. In making this arrangement with PingreJ- Mr. Alger is likewise within the bounds of indisputable propriety. For it appears that in the person of his new associate he not only gains the valuable suppoi-f of a forceful boss with a num erous following, but also discovers a po litical philosopher with some of whose convictions on important subjects he is already in full sympathy. Noboly will question Mr. Alger's right to accept the Plngree creed in whole or in part. If his adhesion to the same Is sincere, his position will be perfectly re spectable while he is running for sena tor. But as Mr. Alger, not as Secretary Alger. A member of the McKinley adminis tration an associate and adviser of the president, has no more business to be in political alliance with Pingree than with Bryan. The impossibility of the sit uation's already apparent. Governor Pinsree's almost daily declarations of utter hostility to the administration's policy, in terms exceedingly con temptuous and insulting are compelling on alternate days explanation from Mr. Alger that must be about as humil iating to the secretary as they are ane noying to his chief. With such a running mate as Pingree, Mr. Alger has undertaken to make the race and to defeat if he can the re-election oL' one of the administration's stanchest supporters in the United States senate. It is quite conceivable that Secretary Alger has been deluding himself with the idea that he can consort with Pin gree in a local way in Michigan and for his own personal purposes, without in volving the administration or damaging the cause which the administration rep resents. That thing can be done by Mr. Alger, but it can not be done by Secretary Al ger. From all of which we conclude that the appropriate time for Hon. Russell A. Alger' resignation as secretary of war has nOw arrived. Republicans Criticise McKinley. (From the Minneapoli-i Tribune.) The Tribune is in receipt of a corrmunl cation from George F. Whitcomb, a wide awake traveling man, in which he says: "Your editorial of June 22. headed, 'Time For Plain Speaking.' describes the politi cal feeling in this section exactly. As a traveling man representing a Minneapo lis home I travel all ttirough North Da kola a'ul Northern Minnesota. I am an out-antJ-out Republican and have always been a partisan of William McKinley. Comin in contact with all classes of peo ple of all shades or pontics. 1 nave tne best oportunit v to learn public sentiment. The general reeling among people who read and think Is that when Dewey cap tured i he Bay of Manila we became re sponsible for the lives and property of all civilize i people in the- Philippines, and that the I'liited States could do no less than t i proclaim and enforce her su premacy and control of those inlands. Hut all through this three months p;ist, eager ly reading the accounts of General Otis' campaign, it Jaily is painfully impressed oti people's minds that someone has blun dered. As you say, 'Polities and War should not be mixed.' but with us polities mixes '.vith everything, even religion, and unle-s President McKinley braces up and tires O l Grannv Canned Roast-beef Alger out of the cabinet and furnishes our gen eral in command at Manila, whoever he may Le. wiui mn enough not only to drive .he Insurgents back out of. their towns and intinchments, but to fully garrisan the sections taken, and thus cow and h i.i down the treacherous natives who only recognize force and have no apprec.atlon of any other treatment, he a-IP have no chance of re-election. I have a son in the Thirteenth Minnesota regi ment, uid neither he nor myself had any sympathy with the maudlin Populist Whine for the volunteers' immediate Sa turn. But I am tired and disgusted', with the sr illv-shally. half-hearted policy of the war 'department that will hold "O.OeU men where I'kl.ui'O are needed and tight the same battles over and over again from lack of force to hold the captured terri tory. It" this thing keeps up for three months nlore anv old 'has been.' like Wil liam J Bryan or even Grover Cleveland, can le,d an anti-administration party to victorj. This is the feeling as I hear it expressed daily. I am pained that it is so. bu'. it Is a fact." We publish the above communication thus conspicuously because it is in lne with letters that we receive from all quar ters and talk we hear on all sides. The Tribune has done all in Its power to arouse the administration to a realizing sense ot tne gravity or tne situation and needs of the hour. There is some indi cation that we. in common with others who have made similar efforts, have suc ceeded to a certain extent. It is an nounced that three brigades of volunteers, numbering about 10. wu men. will be or- fanize 1 immediately for service in the 'hilipptnes. and that the recruiting may contln.ie until the whole army regular's arid volunteers reaches the maximum of lOco-in men authorized by congress. This is ood news, and It is to be hoped trntt it is true. There has been too much de lay, but as the old proverb has it. "Better lute than never." There is time yet to get men on the ground and retrieve the situation in the Philippines with the open ing of the dry season next fall. Butte, Mont., J2S.S5, via Santa Fe Route, KANSASJ1EWS. The Tast Reservoir of the San ta Fe at Moline, Covering Sixty Acres of Ground and 35 Feet Deep, BURSTS THROUGH DAM Owinf to an All Night Down pour of Rain. Workmen on Picnic Grounds II are Narrow Escape. AToline, July 5. The heaviest rainfall in thirteen years fell here Monday night continuing until Tuesday morning. The dam of the large reservoir one and one-half miles west of town, be longing to the Santa Fe railroad com pany was washed out sending floods of water down to the picnic ground a mile below where men were working at the different preparations for a picnic yes terday. They heard the noise and before they could get anything out were obliged to run for their lives, getting out of water waist deep just as the main body of the flood came upon the grounds, sweeping the speaker's stand and all other im provements away. This reservoir was built 3 years ago to supply the water tanks here and covered 60 acres with 35 feet of water. It will be necessary for the company to rebuild it at once. Among other lasses the flood destroy ed over $12,000 worth of wheat. BEATS A GOLD MINE. Fort Scott Man Discovers a Vast Coal Field In Hayti. Fort Scott. July 5. John Forbes has Just received a big conuession of min eral lands in the West Indies and is or ganizing a stock company of large capi tal to develop them. He recently returned from a trip to the islands and he claims to have dis covered a vein of coal thirty-three feet thick in Hayti. on the Windward pas sage, through which the ships of every nation will pass when the Nicaragua canal is opened. His company will pro ceed to develop the coal land, under the belief that it can ship coal to New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore cheaper than it can be shipped there from Pitts burg, Pa. A preliminary survey of the concession has been made. The coal is eighteen miles from the coast and a railroad will be built to transport it to water. J. S. PARKS AT HOME. Ez-State Printer Resumes Manage ment of Call and Invests In Zinc Lands. Beloit, July 5 Kx-State Printer John Parks and family have returned to Be loit. Mr. Parks has resumed the active management of the Call, one of the most prominent Journals, not only in the Sixth district, but the state as well. It is believed Mr. Parks saved a good portion, of the fees he got out of the state printing office, for he has recently become financially interested in 600 acres of zinc and lead lands In northern Arkansas, which experts claim is rich in these minerals, and a company is now forming to commence active develop ments of them. The Call as before, will be a straight out Populist paper, w'th the father I. W. Parks as manag ing editor and Seward A. Jones busi ness manager. Many rumors have been floating around throughout the district that J. W. Parks will be a candidate before the Populist convention for con gress in 1900. Should he consent to run he will be a formidable competitor. THE FOURTH AT BELOIT. Manifold's Band and a Bicycle Flower Parade Attractive Features. Beloit. July 5. A large crowd of peo ple celebrated Fourth of July in Beloit Houses were profusely decorated and business suspended the greater part of the day. There was a parade, headed by Manifold's band, followed by the Beloit fire department in charge of Chief John Kiniry. The bicycle floral parade came next with Geo. Carney in charge, followed by the rough riders and calithumpians in the rear in charge of Ohas. Buit. The floral parade made by the bicycle club was a success. A large number of prizes were offered for the best bicycle turnout, horse racing, foot racing, ladder climbing and numer ous other amusements. Capt. Frank McGrath was chief marshal in the pa rade. At the park there was an address of welcome by Mayor A. B. Cotton, fol lowed by an address by Frank Lutz and singing by the high school chorus. Man ifold's band furnished the music throughout the day. A good display of fireworks closed the day's festivities. NOT IN THE BELL TRUST. Alma 'Phone System Gives Satisfac tion and Rates Are Cheap. Alma, July 5. This place has a flour ishing telephone system. It was install ed and is operated by J. H. McMahon. The automatic switchboard enables subscribers to talk to any one phone on the line without calling up "central." Long distance connections are available with Manhattan, Zeandale, Wabaunsee, Halifax, Eskridge, Vera, Paxico and McFarland. In Alma 60 residence and office phones are in use and more will soon be added. The price is $1 per month for residences and $1.5" for stores and offices. Soon a line to Maple Hill will be constructed. This system is not in the Bell trust. DAVID OVERMYER SPOKE. Citizens of Alma Celebrate July 4th In Various Ways. Alma, July 5. The Fourth was cele brated here at Liederkrantz park. Ten of Marshall's band were present: also Steinberg's orchestra of Topeka. People came from all over the county to cele brate. Dave Overmyer of Topeka de livered the address to a large audience. Other celebrations were held by the church people at the old city park and also one at Haller's grove south of the town. SHOT HIM DEAD. Fourth of July Quarrel at Arkansas City Ends in Murder. Arkansas City. July 5. A shooting affray occurred here yesterday George Mack, a young man from Winfield. shot and instantly killed David Humphrey. Humphrey is about 45 years old b. id was from Americus. Kan., and was here celebrating the Fourth. During the af ternoon Mack and Humphrey had some trouble and Humphrey left the scene to avoid fighting. Mack followed him up town and they met on one of the main streets of the city. A scuffle fol lowed and Mack drew his revolver and killed Humphrey. Mack was captured and lodged In jail. X. W. ECKERT INJURED. Editor of the Arkansas City Traveler Run Over by a ECule. 'Arkansas City, July 5. T. W. Eckert, editor of the Traveler, was seriously in jured In the mule race one of the mules became uncontrollable and ran on the sidewalk, striking Eckert and knocking him down, cutting his head severely and bruising him badly. He was picked up unconscious. Unless he is injured in ternally It is thought he will recover. Murder Still a Mystery. McFarland. Ju.'y 5. No new clues have been discovered to the murderers of Harry Tandy, the young drug clerk of Creighton, Mo., who was assaulted supposedly by tramps last week. Gov ernor Stanley has been requested by the county officials to offer a reward for the capture of the murderers. Mar shal Pipperd of Alma has sent out in formation and description In the hopes of apprehending them Flood In the Neosho Valley. Humboldt, July 5. It has rained for twenty hours. The A'eosho valley Is flooded under six feet of water. Many fields of wheat are gojie, and the corn along the river will be damaged. Seven ty hogs on one farm were drowned. G. Brady was drowned while trying to save some stock. The river is still rising. It is feared the flood will exceed the one of 1S65. Wabaunsee County Doctors' Trust. Alma, July 5. The physicians of Wa baunsee county have organized a coun ty medical society. The society will meet the second Thursday of each, month for the discussion of medical and scientific subjects. All the physicians of the county regardless of schools of med icine are members. Dr. T. N. Watts of Alma is president, and Dr. H. D. Can field of Harveyville is secretary. The next meeting of the society will be held at Alma July 13. There are 17 doctors in Wabaunsee county. $20 ON LONG ODDS. "Chappie'1 Levy Plunges on Borrowed Capital Which Soon Becomes $14,510. New July 5. "Chappie" Levy risks money either for the sake of losing it all on a gamble or winning a pile. He is well known on the race tracks hereabouts and at the Saratoga course as he is in the Tenderloin, and everybody in the Tenderloin knows him. He always plays the limit, whether it be at the races or faro, and in the lan guage of his friends, he is a "fiend" at both. It is because of his nerve that "Chappie" has a large and juicy bank roll, which wns started with a twenty dollar bill and has increased to nearly $ln.0uO sim. e Saturday last. "Chappie" played the race horse Tinge to win at She nshead Bay on Saturday. The gamble was made with atwenty dollar bill, which "Chappie" had borrowed from a fr'end. The horse was first, and being at -i to 1 in the betting. "Chappie" gathered ;n J(!0 for his $20. Then he paid back the 'borrowed $20 and played on vel vet, lie backed these winning horses: David Garrlck. Dan Rice. Knight of the Garter. Fi nn d'Or and Grey Jacques. This table will give an idea, of how "Chappie" played: Bet. Horse. Odds. Won $20 Tinge 31 $'J0 B0 David Garrick lfV 1 750 100 Dan Rice 31 300 100 Knight of the Garter. 60 1 6,0j0 500 Fllon d'Or 145 1.400 500.... Grey Jacques 121 6.000 $1.270 Tot.l bet. Total won S14.r,10 Levy comes of a good English fnmily and is In receipt regularly of a small in come. Before going o the race track on Saturday he expected to receive his usual allowance. If it had come, he says, he would have started off his lucky bet ting stress with a wager of $100 on Tinge, with consequent larger wagers on the other winners which he selected. At Saratoga three years ago Levy had a similar experience, when he ran a "shoestring into a bank roll." as he terms it. Then he not only "beat" the horres, but faro as well, and ta came away with a hatful of money. When ir town Levy gives at the Grand hotel. If is credited: wttli possessing .a good knowledge of horses and his friends know thai when his jtMgment tells him that a ho;se has a chance to win "Chap pie" will plunge, regardless of the odds. "Chappie" says he wins money to lose it. That's the way ir. which he gets any fun out of life. WOMAN'S LONG CYCLE RUN. Mrs. Brush of Brooklyn Gains Distinc tion by Quardruple Century Ride. New York. July 5. Mrs. Irene Brush, the greatest of female cyclists, completed today a quadrup'e century, and has the unique distinction of being the first wo man in the world to accomplish the feat. For nearly forty-eight hours she rode. Before she ha5 finished her first hundred miles she fell: tired in body ami mind. Her eyelids worked feebly, the muscles of her legs felt like hunks of lead, and her spirits began to fail. Had Mrs. Brush been alone she would have given up the struggle, but her husband was at her side and he cheered her on. As the second century was being reeled off strength and determination returned. A rest of a few m'nuies. a moderate meal or two of good, wholesome food, and the cocil breezes made her feel as if she were just begUning. n:id the wonderful trick was as g(.od as turned. Two hundred, t-iree hundred miles were covered, -..ml the plucky little woman was riding a line gap. That fourth hundred was disheartening. After the first fifty miles phsieal endurance waned fast and mental collapse was not far ahead. Each mile was almost a life struggle, but on she rode. Kxhausted In body and mind, her eyes glaring, her cheeks hollow and her flesh ten pounos lightev than when she started. Mrs. Brt-sh alighted in front of her home. llf. Wiloughby street. Brooklyn, at 5:40 o'clock this morning. Those who saw her were startled, but a few minutes later Ir. W. Olcott examined ner and de clared that there were no ill effects from the remarkable struggle barring mental and physical fatigue and a natural loss of flesh. N. E. A. Tickets On sale at Santa Fe depot today. Sale will continue daily to and including July 8. Round trip tickets to Los An geles now cost only $52.01. They're good for stopover and are limited to Septem ber 4. Round Trip Tickets on Sale To Sate Lake and Ogden, J32.00. Glenwood Springs, $31.00. Via Tte Rock Island Route. 44 Good Beginnings Make Good Endings. ft You &ie making a. good beginning when you commence to take Hood's Sa.rsapa.nlla. for any trouble of your blood, stomach, kidneys or liver. Persistently taken, this great medicine ivill bring you the good end ing of perfect health, strength and vigor. FIRST COLONEL NAMED For the Volunteer Regiments to Be Organized. Washington, July 5. The president has appointed Major Edmund Rice, Third infantry, colonel of the first regi ment to be organized under the law calling out volunteers. This regiment will be known as the Twenty-sixth in fantry, the president having authorized the recruiting of ten regiments of In fantry numbered from 26th to 35th. Active recruiting probably will begin tomorrow. 8001IVES In Imminent Danger Texas Flood. From St. Louis, July 6. A special to the Post-Dispatch from Dallas.Texas, says: At 1:45 p. m. today L-eputy Sheriff Swearingen of Austin county, made the following statement over the long dis tance telephone at Sealey: "Relief has not yet reached the flood victims in this section. Thirteen dead bodies have been recovered near the town of Brookshtre, thirteen miles from here. Forty-five persons above Sealey are reported missing, and given up for dead. Seven were drowned today in a boat seven miles below Sealey. "About 400 persons are isolated on a small piece of land in the Brazos bot toms, three miles from Brookshlre. Sev eral hundred more are similarly sur rounded at San Phillipo, three miles from Sealey. Unless relief can soon reach these two isolated places, the 800 lives will be lost. Many will die as it is, from hunger, exposure and exhaus tion. "The water today is running through the town of Brookshire, something nev er before known. The 65 lives reported lost here today were in a radius of 20 miles north and south of Sealey. We are completely isolated at Seaiey, but this town is not in danger. We cannot esti mate the situation beyond the limits I mention. The whole face of the coun try here is a sea. The channel of the Brazo's river has shifted about three miles and the water here is la miles wide. Logs, houses, lumber, railroad material, merchandise, livestock and other floating objects make it worth the life of rescurers to go to the relief of the endangered people, most of whom are negroes. "The railroads are destroyed for miles. An immense washout occurred on the Santa Fe south of Sealey this morning. This cuts off our last strand of railroad communication. The Missouri, Kansas Sc Texas, the Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific are all com pletely stopped. "The framework of the big Missouri, Kansas Texas bridge at Dewey is all that is left of that structure, which if it is not swept bodily away, will have to be rebuilt. The scene at San Phil lipi and in the bottoms near Brookshire are indescribable. The weather is heavy and cloudy this afternoon and we fear more rain will fall tonight." DEWEY AND D1EDR1CHS Exchange of Courtesies Be tween the Admirals Made Public. Berlin, July 5. The Neuste Nachrichten today publishes letters exchanged between Admirals Dewey and Von Diedrichs. The latter's letter is dated March 17 and reads: "Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your communication of March 4, inform ing me your excellency has been promoted admiral. While congratulating your ex cellency sincerely upon this new token of recognition, I beg you to believe your good news has given me the greatest sat isfaction. "I have the honor to be your excel lency's obedient servant. "DIEDRICHS." Admiral Dewey replied April 16, saying: "Dear Admiral Von Diedrichs: I wish to think you most heartily for your cor dial letter of congratulation upon my pro motion. It is a great pleasure for me to feel my advancement is a source of satis faction to vou and I rejoice that our dif ferences have been of newspaper manu facture. "Hoping to have the pleasure of meet ing you again before leaving this station, 1 am, very sincerely, DEWEY." WOMAN'S INTUITION. From the Detroit Free Press. "I begin to think that there is no limit to woman's intuition. It frequently en ables her to read character on sight, but what gets me and strikes me as un canny is the fact that this same Intui tion projects her knowledge into the fu ture and makes her about as convers ant with things to come as with things past. "Let me illustrate. When the copper market was so active I put in hours every day studying quotations, fluctu ations and the outlook. As the result of a conclusion reached by this careful method I invested $200, made good on margins and was finally glad to let go with a loss considerably larger than my original investment. "During a period of confidence and in the enjoyment of prospective rjches I had told my wife of my investment and of the good things she might expect when the deal was closed. It gave her the speculative fever and she was bound to make a plunge. She doesn't know what the word stocks means. A market report Is Greek to her. She couldn't figure on the outlook if she had all the data and a slate and pencil. Yet she came to me with $100 she had saved in old teapots and stockings and told me to buy P. Q. M. shares. I sneering ly told her that they were dead and buried: that she might as well invest in a dry oil well or a sunken ship. But her mind was made up. I thought the lesson would be a cheap one for her and I obeyed. "Those shares took a sudden jump to the surprise of everyone, and she clear ed $2,000. 'Men don't seem to have any business sense." she said, when we com pared notes. 'P. Q. M. stands for pret ty quick money, but a stupid man would never see it." "Heavens!" Then the Detroit broker who had been talking dashed to the floor a 15-cent cigar he had just lit. Reward For Murderer Governor Stanley has offered a reward of $250 for the arrest of the murderers of H. L. Tandy at McFarland on June 2S Tandy was a druggist from Creighton. Mo., and was robbed and his body thrown In a creek. Notice! Strayed Large yellow Jersey cow with crooked horns, had on webbing halter when last seen. Report to police station. A boon to travelers. Dr. Fowler's Ex tract of Wild Strawberry. Cures dysen tery, diarrhoea, seasickneess. nausea. Pleasant to take. Perfectly harmless. ALTGELD EXPLAINS. Says His Fight With Mayor Harrison Is Not a Personal One. Lincoln, I1L, July 6. A month ago former Mayor Turobolt wrote to Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago and former Governor John P. Altgeld asking that they settle their differences outside their political party in the interest of party harmony. When Mr. Harrison replied he gave his answer to the press, but Mr. Alt geld's letter was not made public until today. The latter, which Mr. Turnbolt makes public with the consent of Mr. Altgeld, follows: "Answering your favor of May 29. I will say that there are no personal dif ferences existing between Mr. Harrison and myself. I am endeavoring to main tain Democratic principles and to have the Democratic party staiid by the great principle which it enunciated in 1896 and which practically amount to new declaration of American independ ence, while the Harrison city machine has been carrying on negotiations with the corrupt Tammany leaders of New York with a view of making the Demo cratic party stand for nothing but an appetite. "The Republican managers of the country believe that with Mr. Harrison they can destroy the Democratic party and hence they have been giving him their support. "In the last city election we witness ed this queer spectacle. Six great Re publican papers abandoned their own candidate and supported Mr. Harrison, and the Republican machine here, act ing on advices from Washington, aban doned the Republican candidate and al lowed every thing to drift to Mr. Har rison. "The result was that, according to the Chicago Times-Herald and according to Mr. Harrison's own statement, he re ceived upwards of 70,000 Republican votes; that is, just one-half of his total vote consisted of Republicans. "At the same time between 3O.000 and 40,000 Democrats who felt that I could not be elected and also were determined to defeat Mr. Harrison, because he was not a Democrat, voted the Republican ticket; so, as the matter stands today, Mr. Harrison was made mayor, not by the Democrats, but by the Republicans, for the express purpose, or, at least with the hope, of destroying the Democratic party in 1900 by again prostituting it and bringing it down to the low stand ard of New York politics. "Of course, when the party lines are again drawn, as they will be in the nat ional campaign, these Republicans will not stand by Mr. Harrison. "In my humble Judgment the Demo cratic party can and will succeed if it is true to its higher nature, but it can and will be defeated if it goes to prac ticing 'rat hole' politics." TRAINS SCHOOL GIRLS. New York Believes In Teaching Them Household Duties. New York, July 5. One of those very striking and unique innovations that a-e peculiar to the greater city will shortly be introduced to the school chil dren here. Higher education or, in other words, the education of the school children for the higher stations in life will be carried on as heretofore; but the girls will be given an opportunity to place themselves in a position to face the world prepared to battle for a living. Statistics show that a large percent gee of girls between the ages of 11 and 16 are kept away from school by their parents in order to learn the duties of household work. Now all this is to be changed. The juvenile cosmopolitan miss will shortly find among her new school duties such prosaic occupations as chicken raising, all sorts of house hold work, even to Instructions in deal ing with the ice man. the study of hy giene, light work on the sewing machine gardening and the care of children. In fact, everything that will go to make the girls more independent and put them in the way of making life's burden easier in later years will be undertaken. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. John W. Gardiner to J. B. Wise, sheriff's deed, $1,000, lots 417, 418 and 421 Stillson Bartholomew's addition. Wm. Mitchner and wife to Agnes C. Bagwell, $40, lot 106 Navarre street, Rossville. I Wm. Mitchner and wife to Agnes C. Bagwell, $800, lots 108, 110, 112, 114 and 116 Navarre street, Rossville. H. C. Root and wife and Louise D. Wolfe to Geo. W. Reed, jr., $600, lots 25 and 27 Topeka avenue, Douthilt Place. LOCAL MENTION. D. L. Sullivan of St. Louis, Mo., will speak at 722 Kansas avenue, this after noon and evening at Divine Science hall. Death of Sir Alexander Armstrong. London, July 5. Sir Alexander Arm strong, K. C. B., formerly director gen eral of the medical department of the British army is dead. He served five continuous years in the Arctic regions, searching for Sir John Franklin and discovering the northwest passage. Jesse Elliott 111. Mr. Jesse Elliott, son of Councilman Elliott, is quite sick at the home of his father, on Topeka avenue. Gold Comes Our Way. Sydney, N. S. W., July 5. The British steamer Moana sailed today from this port for San Francisco with $500,000 in gold on board. They're on Sale Today. Round trip tickets to Los Angeles and return for $52.00. They will remain on sale until July 8. For particulars and descriptive literature apply to T. L. King, agent, depot. Heinz's Ice Cream is the best. Phone 3&7 212 East Eighth street. See how J. D. Pattlson, sanitary ser geant, is being cured by the Oxygenur. Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum. Alum bakinor powders are the greatest meaacers to health of the present day. ROYAL BAKING OWOCW CO., WTW VOWC

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I) TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1899 j V. f" I i i t V I f TSiii Bros., 626 KANSAS AVENUE, WIIX SEIX A 6-ft Square Extension Table at. .$3.25 A Kitchen Cabinet at.. $3.90, $4.90, $5.85 A Larje Kitchen Safe at $4-25 A Glass-Door Dish Closet at $4-90 A Sideboard at $9-85 A Set (6) Dining Chairs at $3.95 An Iron Bed, good one, at $2.25 A Bed-Room Set, well made, at. $15.00 An Oak Center Stand, Brass Legs. .$1.50 A Baby Carriage, Rubber-tire wheels, at $5-25 "We are the Lowest-Priced Furni ture Store in this city, with three sorts of Furniture to select from THE VERY GOOD, LOW-PRICED FURNITURE, THE VERY BEST, MEDIUM PRICED FURNITURE, AND THE HANDSOME, ORNATE, AND COSTLY FURNITURE. POPULAR MISTAKE. It Does Not Always Rain on the Fourth of July. The prevainng Hsa H that rain is sure on July Fourtn and those wh watch ti.a jtn on th- nation's holiday were or-tA-.n of rain Tuesday before the ctou-s K'Te tae" past twelve years then- havo tw1 j!X "Gloriaus Fourths" with no ram. TV records of Weather Oli'frvr JJ; ning-t snow the following: Ju.y 4. i hunuredths of an inch betwe-n noon an. I 0- .-i.K-k: J..H- 4. lsv. n- rain, ana n-ne in 1- a or but in lv.'l to K-nundredtns e,r'v i the morning. In 1'".' an.i lv-j no ram", and in 2i hundr-::; m the niornrng. In 1 ;i nundre tins ir.l tweeii 5 and 6 in the morning and eom mt.ncing at 7:2m in the evening trire i.,ch-s fed l-ef.jro divhght n-xt mo-:nng. l'n l-'.! hundredths Utw-n noon and 1:3ft and in lw7 two showers at 1 and h amounting to W hundred-.::. In !V thr- was no rain, and til- .ast our.n. just passed, 10 hundredths fell ia t.ia a: ernoon. "WILL HAVE A FORTUNE. A. Eirbour Inherits $60,000 From a Rich Uncle. 'A large slice of good fortune has come ti Mr. A. Hirbour. a well known ciitzen of this city. He has fallen heir to about IfiO.lHjO, which is Lis share of an estate soon to be divided. M. Emmanui-1 Hirbour. uncle of Mr. A. Hirbour. was suddenly taken sick, two weeks ago Sunday, ami died, leav ing an "state valued at over one and one half million dollars, to be divided up among some 2t) or 25 heirs. He left no will. Mr. Hirbour was at the time of his death on a visit to Butte City. Montana. He had formerly lived there but several years ago moved to St. John. Montreal. He was a man of about titty years of age, very quiet and unassuming-, and had amassed this fortune by hard work and close attention to business. Mr. A. Hirbour came to Topeka two years ago, comparatively a poor man. In talking with a Journal reporter this morr.ir.se he said: "I am of course feel ing much elated over my good fortune and although. I am sure of receiving quite a large sum. yet I can not say lust how much. I have not made up my mind as yet what I shall do with the money, but I shall invest it in some safe manner. I am sure of one thing though, and that is that I shall continue in my business the same as usual and shall work just as hard." NOW SECURITY BUILDING. City Hall Block Rachristened by the Purchasers. The city building' which was pur chased a few days aero by the Knights and Ladies of Security will be com pletely remodeled and will thereafter be known as the Security building. I As soon as the buildir.tr an be vacated I the work will begin. The old front will be taken out and an entire new front put in. The part now occupied by the fir" department will be made over into office and store rooms. The front part of the building on the second floor will, with a f-w- minor changes, be made into th- office rooms of the ord-r. while the third storv will be appropriately fitted up for "lodge meetings, etc. SECRETS OF WAR HISTORY. News of Schley's Victory Suppressed For Fourteen Hours. Washington. D. C. Ju'.v 5.-On- vear so wis a.i anxious time for the n resident and his cabinet. Soon after the fleet of 'ervera ha 1 Len destruved i,v S-hley and his e3t;n; ma.-hin.-s Colonel James Al ien, in charge of the signal corps. hci"i trie news from On ban seou-.s and tele graphed it to Washington. Sehlev had been superseded :in the New York ar rived on the seene. and of course con id maKe no dire, t report. Sarr.Dson was apparently busy concocting his "remarka ble dispatch m wiik-ii he attempted to hos tile victory Schiey n.td de.-iared was "itrp.it enough f.-r us ail." Thus it h-i--per.ej tat Colonel Alien's dispatch stood aione for fourteen hours. It was so remarkable, so unexpectedlv giorious. tnat toe president and ins cabi net advisers were afraid to give (t tl1" tne country withoi.t verification. Colonel 1 len was cable-1 by General Ore-eiv. and promptly replied that the news wa cor rect. Still tne White House authorities waited for direct news from Sampson. Xo one slept that night, and tor fourteen hours the secret was kept witnin the anx ious breasts of the men who wre direct-Ins- the course of the war. Tien came Sampson s vainglorious message and a matter of fact report from Watson, and then and not till then was the country in formed of tue glorious news. Colonel Alien was the ot'iicer who se cretly discovered the presence of C-rve-a'a fleet at Santiago, and that dispatch too was Mcofied at by the board of strategy! It was a curious coincidence that he s-iouid have reported both the arrival a-nd tic destruction of the. Srwnish fle-t and ehould have been disbelieved in both, cases. Tour collars and cuffs will be finished) dth a smooth edge if sent to Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 W. Sth St. J. "W. Priddy can tell you how the Oxygenor enableii him to be at his book Store again. DAY 1HS0GIETY. Miss Yera Low Entertains" For ty of Her Friends. Delightful Fourth of July and Dancing Party. SPOILED PICNXCS. Disappointed People Enjoy Indoor Gatherings. News Personal and Otherwise About Society People. Miss Vera Low entertained about forty of her friends at a delightful lawn picnic, Tuesday evening at her nome on Fillmore street. The supper w. is to have been served on the lawn but the rain prevented this and instead, long tables w ere arranged in the drive way. The porch was comfortably furnished with rugs, cushions and chairs and the evening was spent in dancing and shooting off fireworks. The invited guests were: Miss Sdna McCiintock. Miss Myrtle Davis, Miss Ivah Uavis. Miss Susie iay. Miss Ger trude Uevereux. Miss Daisy Sherman. Miss Lillian Whitelock, Miss Panette Lord, Miss Edna Crane, Miss Helen Thompson. Miss Helen Wilson. Miss Hazel Fassler, Miss Kuth McCiintock. Miss Mary Moon, Miss Lillian Tefft, Miss Winifred Wagner, Miss Grace Cur tis, Miss Vitelline Mulvane, Miss Mar garet liear. Miss Mabel Knowles. Miss drace Weiss, Mr. Adrian Sherman, Mr. Frank Sheldon, Mr. Galen Xichols. Mr. Lon Davis, Mr. Tom King, Mr. Y alter Smith, Mr. Frank Davis, Mr. Kurtz Kellam. Mr. Wiil Wadsworth, Mr. Wal ter Marshall of Dallas. Texas; Mr. Tom Frost, Mr. Kverett Dallas, Mr. Dorr Norton, Mr. Jake Mohler, Mr. Lew Gra ham. Mr. Joe Morgan, Mr. Frank WhiteUu-k. Mr. Kassie Bennett. Mr. Ralph Valentine, Mr. Charles Barnes, Mr. John Nicholson, Mr. George Kster ley. Mr. Guilford Dudley, Mr. Turn Clements and Mr. Dean Low. A Fourth July Dinner. The party which had planned to ypenc? Tuesday afternoon at Martin's nil' was enterta-ned at a charming 6 o'clock din ner instead, at the home of Miss Rosa mond Horton. on account of the rain. Shooting off fireworks was the chief amusement of the evening. Those pres ent were: Dr. and Mrs. W. X. West, Judge and Mrs. j. B. Furry, Mr-.- and Mrs. David Palmer. Mr. and Mrs. John Hobson. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cole, Miss Myrtle Jetmore, Miss Bessie West, Miss Lucile Harris of Niagara, Canada; Miss Franc Heizer of Colorado Springs; Miss Marguerite Warner of Rockford' 111.; Miss Rosamond Horton. Mr. Harry Hobson, Mr. John Waters, Mr. Pe .bo3y and Mr. Raiph Moore. At Silver Lake. The following young people, chaper oned by Miss Ada Smith en joj ed a jleasar.t picnic at Silver Lake: Miss Octavia Greenwood. Miss Nellie Kirk, Miss Margaret GUtillan, Miss Minnie Norton of Emporia, Miss Blanche Bear, Mr. Earl Graham, Mr. Frank Hungate, Mr. Earl Shook and Mr. Victor Martin. At Forbes Farm. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cust, Mr and Mrs. Carl Neilis. Miss Pearl McFarland. Miss Lillian McFarland, Mr. Lee Forbes and Mr. Luther Neilis spent Tuesday afternoon and evening at Cedar Heights, the country home of Mr. and Mis. D. H. Forbes. An Anniversary Party. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Haramonl en tertained a number of their f'iends Monday evening in honor of thei:' fifth wedding anniversary s.t their hone on Clay street. The evening was spent in musl- and games; refreshments were served. Mrs. Hammond was assisted in entertaining by Mrs. George Palfreyman, Miss Ethel Payne and Miss Laura Cole. Those nresent were: Mr. and- Mrs. W. H. Beli, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Ttacey, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Gilpin. Mr- and Mrs. H. G. Palmer. Mr. and MiM. T. Sheard, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C'reen street. Mr. and Mrs. Vickers of Rich land, Mo.. Mr. and Mrs. Fogel, Ml', and Mrs. Palfreyman, Mr. and Mrs! Moore, Mrs. Moore. Mrs. Lauck, Mrs. Tilman, Mrs' McC'lure, Mr. and Airs. Cramer, Miss Moffit, Miss Sexton, Miss ciamer, Miss Hoyce. Miss Ethel Payne, Mrs. Payne. Miss Barkley, Mr. Confer. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. W. W. Phelps has returned to her home in Denver after a visit with Mrs. E T. Sim on Taylor street. Mrs. Phelps also visited friends in Kansas City. Miss Mary Harrison and Miss, EfTie Neal left Monday for Manitou to spend the summer. Miss Rone will arrive Friday from Brooklyn. N. Y to remain over Sunday with Mrs. K. T. Sim. Mrs. Dr. Berry left today for a month's visit with her parents in Lon don. Canada. Mr. Walter Marshall of Dallas. Texas, who has been visiting Mr. Will Wads worth went to Kansas City today .ac companied by Miss Viola White; they will spend the day with Miss White's aunt, Mrs. I). C. Burson. Mr. Marshall will return to Dallas from there. Mrs. C. R. Hudson and sister. Miss Louse Willis, returned Sunday from a short trip to Chicago. Mr. David McCoy oT Pueblo, Col., spent the Fourth in Topeka. Mr. Homer Low of Ft. Worth. Texas, spent Sunday in Topeka with the family of his uncle, Mr. M. A. Low. Mrs. L. B. McCiintock will leave Thursday for a several weeks' visit in Chicago. Mr. Carl Gay of Ithaca, N. Y. is in the city visiting Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Gay and family. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Sim will leave next w-ee-k for Colorado Springs to remain about two months for the benefit of Mr. Sim's health. Miss Taunsie Capps and Miss Bessie Maxwell left Tuesday for a months visit in Illinois. Misses Lizzie Lambert and Miss Ma bel Jett came up from Kansas City Tuesday evening to visit Miss Jett's parents. Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Jett. Miss Selma and Theresa. Johnson are visiting friends in Hiawatha. Mr. Chariie Stolne and sister, Miss Edith Stolpe returned today from a few days' visit in Windsor, Kansas. Mr. DeForrest Jetmore spent Tuesday in Rossville. Mrs. Alice Haney chaperoned a merry party of young folks at Vtnewood park on the Fourth. In the party were: Miss Helga Reronius. Vida Bush, Grace Huntsberger. Nellie Jones. Stella Bar num. Alice Hartmen. Ida Tagart, Nellie Breidenthal. Lulu Groves. Ethel Ellis and Miss Pearl Hayslip; Mr. Will Hav slip, George Hearald. Robert Shorts. Alonzo Delon. Isaac Barnum. Bert Hill, Curtis Knowles, George Finley. Marion Vansant. Fred Stewart. Chas. Finch, Robert Haney and Mr. Claud Henry. MR. G0DARD WILL WRITE Attorney G9neral to Call Attention of City Officials to Law Violations. In response to the recent demands made upon him by the committee ot citizens for the enforcement of the pro hibitory law in Topeka, Attorney Gen eral A. A. Godard has decided to com municate with the city officers concern ing the subject. Th- committee suggested that Mr. Godard notify the city officers of the new law, under which for permitting violations of the prohibitory law they are liable to criminal prosecution and forfeiture of their offices. "This," said Mr.' Gleed at the time the committee called on Mr. Godard, "would inform the officials of their neglect of duty and would probably result in more active measures to enforce the law." It was also suggested to Mr. Godard that he appoint an assistant attorney general but he has decided to adopt the first suggestion mentioned. So far as the public Is concerned Mr. Godard has made no announcement of the policy he proposes to adopt, but it is said that he will simply call the at tention of the city officials to the law and suggest to them the penalties at tached to their action in permitting the violations to continue. Mr. Godard has been Informed by several gentlemen, presumably author ized to so do, that Mayor Drew is op posed to the joints and saloons and will cause an enforcement of the law. It is also said that Mr. Drew has now in contemplation a policy of suppression for the joints and saloons and is pre paring to put it into vigorous opera tion. F'riends of Mr. Godard in this city, who claim no effort has been made to suppress the joints, have urged him to take no action until the proper author ities make at least an effort. The at torney general has also been urged to take no part in this fight, the argument being that the state administration i3 in no sense responsible for the existing conditions and that the fight should be waged by the county and city officers. However, the attorney general accepts the effort of the committee as being in good faith and will take one of the j steps suggested by the originators of j the fight on the jointists. Evidence has been presented Mr. Godard to substan tiate the rumor that the scheme was a political one, yet he hajs not deemed it worthy of consideration and will act to the best of his ability and as wise judg ment dictates, in the matter. STONE ECONOMICAL. Vetoes Proposed Expenditures For Elevator and Works of Art In His Mansion. Harrisburg, July 5. The executive mansion will not be remodeled and re furnished as provided in the official schedules of the board of public build ings and grounds for the current fiscal year. Governor Stone has decided that he can do without an elevator, oil paint ings, decorations, bric-a-brac and the numerous other improvements forwhich contracts have been awarded under the schedule. T. Larry Eyre, superintendent of pub lic buildings and grounds, made the fol lowing statement today In relation to the proposed expenditures: "The board has had no Intention at any time to make these expenditures. The governor opposed outlay. These items were in the schedule of possible things required during the coming year, like many other items that got into the schedule under the law requiring every purchase to be from the lowest public bidder; but the items scheduled and awarded to the bidders can not be pur chased except on requlsltionsubsequent ly approved by the board. The articles appearing in the papers charging Gov ernor Stone with needless and extrava gant repairs to the mansion are jabso lutely untrue." The action of the board In disallow ing all of these items will give the state several thousand dollars, as the contract price for the elevator alone was J4.000. EAGLE EXCURSION. Sightseers From New York Pass Through Topeka, The Brooklyn Eagl? excursion train of seven cars passed through Topeka this morning at 11 o'clock. The train was made up of some of the finest cars in the service and consisted of one bag gage, one diner, one observation car and seven sleepers. This train left Kansas City at 8 o'clock this morning, and will arrive at Denver early tomorrow- morn ing, where the day will be spent in look ing around the city. At midnight the train will proceed on its way to Colora do Springs. Here a stop will be made in order to give the party ample time to visit Pikes Peak and the Garden of the Gods. At 7 o'clock the next morning the train will continue on its journey to Los Angeles, no more stops being made. The Brooklyn Eagle is noted for Its excursions and has conducted them to nearly all parts of the glohe. RAILROAD NOTES. At Denver tomorrow, the Santa Fe 1 will receive from the B. M.. the Ne- i braska delegation which will leave that same night over the Santa Fe for Los Angeles. A special car from Peoria, with Prof. Dorothy and party will leave Kansas City on Santa Fe No. 1 tomorrow, bound for Los Angeles. Specials from Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana will start on the sixth; specials from Ohio, New York and the Kay-mond-Whitcmb excursion from New England will leave on the seventh. These specials will all pass through Toi peka. AUTOMOBILES WIN. Law Prohibiting Them on Chicago Boulevards Declared Void. Chicago, July 5. Judge Gibbons todav delivered an opinion in the case of the South Park ordinance prohibiting the 1 use of automobiles on the south side boulevards. He declared the ordinance i void. t "It is a matter of common knowledge that there is less danger in an automo bile than in a horse and buggy," said the court. "The park board did wrong in Binding out the new vehicle and placing it under the ban of outlawry." SPANISH PRISONERS. Outlook For Their Release Is Report ed to Be Good. Washington, July 5. The war depart ment has received from General Otis advices relative to the negotiations pro ceeding in Luzon between the Spanish commissioners and Aguinaldo looking to the release of the Spanish prisoners. General Otis' report indicates that there is a fair prospect that these unfortun ates will be set free. If not all of them, then certainly a large number. It is rot known whether the captives of the Yorktown's crew are to be Included in the prisoners to be released, but it is feared that owing to their different sta tus they will be held by the insurgents. Short time work done by the Peerless Steam Laundry without extra charge, 112 and 114 Wrest Eighth street. Los Augelcs, California, $"2,000 for the round trip Via the Rock Island Scenic Route. KANSAS FAIRS. Secretary Cobnrn Gives the Sates and Location. Following is a list of fairs to be held in Kansas in 1899. their dates, locations and secretaries, as reported to the state board of agriculture and compiled by Secretary F. D. Coburn: Allen County Agricultural society: C. H. Wheaton, secretary, Iola; Sep tember 5-8. Anderson County Fair association: C. H. Rice, secretary, Garnett; Septem ber 26-29. Brown County Fair association: Grant W. Harrington, secretary; Hia watha; August 29-31. Clay County Fair association: E. E. Hoopes, secretary. Clay Center; Sep tember 12-15. Coffey County Fair association: "Woodford, secretary, Burlington; tember 11-15. J. E. Sep- Cowley County Fair association: W. J. Kennedy, secretary, Wlnfield; Sep tember 20-22. Douglas County-Kaw Valley Fair as sociation: Tracy Learnard, secretary. Lawrence: September 12-15. Finney County Agricultural society: D. A. Mims, secretary. Garden City; September 12-15. Franklin County Agricultural socie ty: E. M. Sheldon, secretary, Ottawa; September 19-22. Greeley County Fair association: I. B. Newman, secretary, Tribune; Octo ber 4-5. Jackson County Agricultural and Fair association: S: B. McGrew, secretary, Holton; September 11-15. Jefferson County Agricultural and Mechanical association: Edwin Snyder, secretary. Oskaloosa; September 5-8. Johnson County Co-operative Fair association: J. M. Warren, secretary, Edgerton: September 26-29. Marshall County-Frankfort Fair as sociation: C. W. Brandenburg, secre tary, Frankfort; September 26-29. Miami County Agricultural and Me chanical Fair association: W. J. Car penter, secretary, Paola; September 12 15. Montgomery County-Coffey ville Fair and Park association: It. Y. Kennedy, secretary, Coffeyville; August 15-19. Morris County Exposition Company: E. J. Dill, secretary. Council Grove; September 26-29. Neosho County Fair association: H. Lodge, secretary, Erie; August 28- Sep tember 1. Neosho County Chanute Agricultural, Fair. Park and Driving association: Aug. Bareis, secretary, Chanute; Sep tember 6-9. Ness County Fair association: Sam G. Sheaffer. secretary, Ness City; Septem ber 14-16. Osage County Fair association: C. H. Curtis, secretary, Burlingame; Septem ber 5-8. Osborne County Fair association: M. E. Smith, secretary, Osborne; Septem ber 12-15. Riley County Agricultural society: Charles Kleiner, secretary, Riley; Sep tember 5-8. Rooks County Fair association: David B. Smith, secretary, Stockton; Septem ber 19-22. Saline County Agricultural. Horticul tural and Mechanical association: H. B. Wallace, secretary, Salina; September 25-211. Sedgwick County Wichita State Fair association: H. G. Toler, secretary. Wichita; September 25-30. Wilson County Fredonia Agricultural association: J. T. Cooper, secretary, Fredonia; August 22-25. NO MORE FIRE WORKS. Nearly Every Dealer In Topeka Dis poses of Entire Stock. More fireworks were sold for this year's Fourth of July than have been sold for many years past. All the dealers report extra heavy sales, es pecially in firecrackers. As one of the dealers expressed it, "The people have always had plenty of patriotism but not much money and the increase in the sales this year is due to the fact that they have more patriotism and more money." In regard to the extra amount sold, Mr. J. S. Sproat of the Star grocery said: I put in twice the stock of fire crackers this year that I did last year and they were all sold and I could have sold a great many more if I had had them." Mr. E. C. Glenn, of the Fair: "I had an exceedingly large stock of fireworks this year, almost twice the amount that I carried last year, and they are all sold. I think that I could have sold more." A.Troup of Troup's Enterprise: "This year's sale of fireworks was the largest we have had for 17 years. We put in an extra large stock and we could hardly supply the demand, especially in our wholesale department." COHISU BACK. Samoan Commission to Start on the 14 tii Inst. "VA'ashingrton, July 5. The folio win? ca hlfgram ha.s been received at the navy liepartmpnt from Captain MrrHl Miller, cammaiding' the naval transport BiUg-er. which has the Samoan. commission on board "Anckianrl, July X Samoa, Brutus sails for Honolulu July 6. Badger, with com mission, on 14th. if nothing prevent-. "M rTjf-KR." It Is expecte-d that the commission wiil reah Sin Francisco about the loth of August. INTO GOLD BONDS. Entire Foreign Debt of Mexico to Be Converted. New York. July 5. It was announced to day that the formal contract has been signed wherbv J. P. Morgan Co. of this city, S. Bleichroder of the Deutsche j oariK, tne iresoner Dans in oermany an-i J. S. Morgan Co. in London undertake the conversion of the entire foreign debt of the republic of Mexico, most of which bears H per cent interest, by the issue of new bonds at 5 per cent interest. The new bonds are payable in sterling or in dollars at 4.S5 exchange, at the option of the nolders. and payment in America is in Vnited States gold coin of the present j sianuaru ox w eigne ana nneness. i ne bonus were secured by a pledge of cus toms duties. Special Election Called. Jefferson City, Mo.. July 5. Governor Stephens today ordered a special elec tion to be held on Tuesday. August 29, to fill the vacancy in the Eighth Mis souri district, caused by the death of Congressman Richard P. Bland. Women's Council Adjourns. London. July 5. The sessions of the In ternational Council of Women terminated today at the Countess of Aberdeen's resi dence, at Waiford. where there was a very large gathering of delegates. The countess entertained the delegates at luncheon. Cuban Revenues. Washington, July 5. The war depart ment announced today that the aggregate reeeiDts from customs in Cuba for the past fourteen weeks are S3. 94 St. SI 4. The receipts for the week ending June 17 last, vizi $J-5.(;-.il. exceed those of any previous week by $!i5,064. "Why is it." he asked, "that people who have money seldom have t-ate in dress?" Her look of pityiiig contempt showed that his problem was altogether too easy for her. "It is because the people who have taste in dress so scidom have money." Chicago Post. SHCLEY'S FRIENDS ANGRY. Maryland Republican Will Protest to McEinley Against Alleged Mis use of Admiral. Baltimore, Mi, July 5. In the inter ests of the Republican party, as well as the whole people of Maryland, Uni ted States Senators Wellington and Jlc Comas and Governor Lowndes will, it is said, go to Washington this week to ask President McKinley for his assist ance in putting a stop to what a ma jority of the people call the persecution of Admiral Schley. The visitors, it is understood, will protest to the president against the. manner in which the navy department has attempted to belittle Admiral Schley's conduct and standing. They will argue that Admiral Schley is not only a Marylander and dear to the peo ple of the state, but that he comes from western Maryland, which ia the citadel of the Republican party in the state. In addition to this, the admiral comes from a strong Republican family, the members of which keenly feel the in justice of this controversy, which seems to have been fostered by the bureau of navigation. The Republican leaders are afraid the Schley controversy may ser iously affect the Republican vote In the state election this year. PEFFER'S Y0ICE FOR WAR. Takes Strong Grounds on the Philip pine Question. Chicago, JuIt 5. A special to the Trib une from Maryville. Mo., says: Ex-Senator Peffer of TCans&jj was the principal speaker at the Fourth f July celebration in Marvville. He said in his address: "Scarcely had the smoke of battle be tween Americans and Spaniards blown over from Manila when tnat part of the earth began to show .ligns of American prosperity and order. Everything went along smootnly until some of our soldiers were fired upon by certain ruffians. It immed dtely became our government's duty to protect the lives of our soldiers and the honor of our country and to se cure and preserve peace and order. "When that has been done we can find time to dispute among ourselves about minor questions of government, but not before. Those who oppose this policy tedl us that we are violaiiog the principles of the lOedaration of .ndependence by en forcing our government upon people with out their consent. "Will you turn open the doors of our prisons and turn out ail the men who are incarcerated there against their consent? This countrv originally belonged to the Indians. Did the white man permit the Indian to burn and kill because to restrain him would be to govern him without his consent-' "We were dealing directly with Spain and when the Spanish fleet was sunk and Manila captured the Philippines came in to oar control under trie international cide and we became, directly responsible for them and the acts of their inhabitants in the eves of 'he world. They are ours to dispose of a much as any territory of this na'ion. an if the administration re fused to put down that rebellion it would be as derelict Sn its duty as it would be If it fared to put down a rebellion in Mis souri of Kans: s or Texas." LOST HIS BALLOON. Aeronaut Kelly's Vehicle Confiscated by Farmers. Georg,rf Kelly, who made the balloon ascension at .Garfield park on July Fourth is out his balloon. After he ma,Je the ascension and cut loose for his parachute jump the balloon traveled north and landed in a field. Two men living near carried the balloon to their place and when Kelly went after it refused to give it to him. He went to Sheriff Cook this morning to find out what steps h? would have to take to secure his hot air bag. LARGEST DELEGATION. Kansas Special to California Carries 24.7 Passengers. Kansas as fisual comes to the front again. The Kansas special which left Kansas City on the morning- of the third ever the Santa Fe. was crowded to overflowing when it reached Hutch inson. The train consisted of ten sleep ers and a baggage car and had a total of 247 passengers. This makes the Kansas delegation the largest 'that has gone to the Pacific coast. IS HER HOODOO Independence Colored Woman Blames All Her Tils on Noah Turner. Independenc e, Kan., July 5. Mary Anderion, a veil known colored woman who lives next doer to Noah Turner in the west part of town, had a hearing in probate court yes'erday afternoon on the charge of insanity. For some months past Mary has been under the impression that she was hoodooed by Noahj Turner and all the aches, pains and tiad luck that she has had, has been blamed on Noah. Friends ha e tried without avail to banish the superstition from her mind. Within a da or 'two she has grown wrathv and has thrown bricks and stones at Norn's children, so that some thing had tr be oone. A good many colored people were called to testify in the case. Tije case has not yet been completed. GENERAL RAINS. Kansas Receives a Timely Soaking oVer the State. During the 84 hours ending at 7 o'clock in the mornirig or July 4. Kansas receiv ed a general rain which will greatly benefit the ci'ops. At Hays City the rainfall was the largest and amounted to 24 inches. At Maxwell, l'ii inches, Manhattan 1 and 17 hundredths im-hes. McPherson 93 hundredths. Wichita one inch. Concor dia one and ZS hundredths and Topeka a half inch. Irrespective of Politics. TT- lh:n,-,,n T,1 C Qtir, ntnr "VTT fllirln of South Carolina wns at the White House j tonav ,.n tne internal oi mjuic a.L,),iiit, for commissions in. the new milk-try or ganization. He w.?s given to understand that li e president ould apportion the of jlc,.rs Sj'or the new-regiments among the several states in th?k proportion of a cap tain and a tir:?t lieutenant for each state, irrespective of politics. A Pathetic Story. Ano'her more pathetic example was that if an old woman whose husband was incapacitated from further work. He belonged to a friendly society, but for six months o" the year was only entitled to draw from it two shillings a week. As it was impossible for the aged pair to live on this sum, the wife asked for outdoor relief. Her applica tion was refused, Tiecause in the opinion of the guardians, (though a dwarf, de formed and the victim of a painful in ternal malady, she was not yet abso lutely worn out. Day after day she dragged herself to field work as long as slit could manage to crawl, earning from sevenpence to nlnepenee a day by tying barley under the harvest sun. Out of thi-i miserable pittance she religious ly set' aside the payments that she had begun in more prosperous times for her funeral. She died a pauper, after ter rible suffering borne with marvelous patience: she was burled at her own ex pense, with money earned by the sweat of her brow amid sharp bodily anguish. From the London Spectator. SCUDDER D1Y0RCE CASE. Wife Is Allowed $40 a Month Ali mony. Judge Hazen today made an order requiring T. T. Scudder, whose wife has sued for a divorce in the district court, to pay temporary alimony to the amount of $40 per month and $50 to cover costs. The alimony is to be paid on the 10th of each month. The Scudder divorce case is one of the most important that has been filed in the district court for a good while. The plaintiff. Mrs. Sarah J. Scudder, was formerly well known among the edu cators of southeastern Kansas, by her maiden name. Miss Sarah Kelley. She was county superintendent of Miami county during the early nineties, and declined a re-election to the office to marry Mr. Scudder in January, 1893. Mr. Scudder has been prominent In insurance circles in Kansas for several years. Up to the time that the New York Mutual was shut out of the state by Superintendent of Insurance Mc Nall, because of its refusal to pay the Hillmon claim. Mr. Scudder was sup erintendent of agents in Kansas for that company, acting under John E. Lord, the company's general agent for Kansas. Later he traveled for the Phoenix of Hartford. Mr. and Mrs. Scudder lived In Pot win until about a year axo, but for the past few months they have had apart ments at the Throop hotel, and it is there that most of their domestic dif ficulties have occurred. The culmination of the troubles be tween Mr. and Mrs. Scudder came about three weeks ago In their room at the Throop, when she says Mr. Scud der threatened to shoot her and kept her locked in her room several hours. The name of another woman is also brought into the case as corespondent. The trouble at the Throop was the last straw that broke the camel's back and determined Mrs. Scudder to sue for a divorce. Her attorneys are Allen Allen, while Mr. Scudder is defended by Quinton Quinton. Mrs. Scudder has gone back to Paola where she has friends, and Mr. Scudder is now out on the road. NORTH TOPEKA. Items intended for this column should be left with the Kimball Printing com pany. 835 Kansas avenue. Miss Ella Sheetz attended the picnic in Osawkie yesterday. Mr. Early of the Capitol elevator left today for Oklahoma to purchase grain. Miss Susie Myers went to Meriden this morning to make a brief visit to friends. Mrs. S. L. Courtney returned today from Council Grove where she was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Phillips, over the Fourth. Geo. S. Cooper, formerly of North To peka, but now of Rossville, spent the Fourth visiting friends on the North side, returning today. Thomas Hoffman of East Curtis street is superintendent in charge of the. new Catholic church building at the corner of Third and Van Buren streets. Probate Judge and ?irs. L. S. Dolman and children, Helen .'.nrl Hobart, and maid will leave Sunday evening foi Manitou where they have taken a cot tage and will spend this month. Three Russian families have just ar rived from Buenos Ayres to swell the population of "Little Russia." They originally emigrated from Russia to South America but have now come to North Topeka to better their condi tion. Miss Ida Guffy and Mr. David Glld den were married Monday. July 3, at the home of the bride's parents, 910 Madi son street. Rev. W. B. Hutchinson, pastor of the Baptist church, officiated. The funeral of Ralph W. Hamond, the 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hamond. whose death occurred yester day from spinal meningitis at the fam ily home, six miles north of town on the Meriden road, was held this afternoon at one o'clock. The Violet club and a few of their friends drove to Grantville yesterday and enjoyed a picnic in the woods near that place. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jordan, Misses Laura Houghtelin, Maud and Flo Curry, Dollie Curtis, Lou Dell McMaster, Bertha Rowley: Messrs. Harley Hamilton, Merle King, George Heyden. James Bonham, Paul and Harry Roehr, Harry Knowles and Mr. Early. The business of the Santa Fe railroad has Increased so in North Topeka in the past year that the company finds It necessary to put in more switches and extend their North Topeka yards. It is probable that some of the Rus sian squatters near the Elevator will be compelled to vacate in order to give the company the required room to make the contemplated improvements. Dr. H. B. Hogeboom, the physician in charge of Clarence Scott, the young man who was supposed to be suffering from smallpox, said yesterday that Mr. Scott's illness was a severe case of chickenpox. The quarantine will prob ably be raised this morning. It was reported this morning that the patient's fever last evening was very high. A number of young people chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Beeler and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jackson drove out to the Norris grove about two miles west of town and spent a very pleasant day. They returned to town late in the after noon and spent the evening at the park. Those present were Misses Benard, Edith Dudie, Myrtle and Gertrude Palmer, Lillie Wellman, Ida Waldman, Emma Beeler, Annie and Dora Murphy. Lottie Morris; Messrs. Will and Ed Cowdrey, James Patterson, Allen Fowler, Clarence "Waldman. Charles Matthews. Oscar Ficki, James Reedy, Clark and James Wellman and Lew Morris. STAND IP TO FIT A SHOE. From the New York Herald. "People would find less difficulty with ready-made shoes," said the experienc ed salesman, "if they would stand up to fit them on Instead of sitting down. Nine persons out of ten. particularly women, want a comfortable chair while they are fitting a shoe, and it is with the greatest difficulty you can get them to stand for a few minutes, even after the shoe is fitted. Then, when they begin walking about, they wonder why the shoes are not so comfortable as they were at first trial. A woman's foot is considerably smaller when she sits in a chair than when she walks about. Exer cise brings a larger quantity of blood into the feet, and they swell apprecia bly. The muscles also require certain space. In buying shoes this fact should be borne in mind." Partridges Tame as Chickens. The Idea that a partridge could not be tamed has always been a prevailing one, and that too, not without founda tion. The experiment has often been tried without any success. Mr. Joseph Golloway of this city, however, has made an exception to this seemingly natural rule. He has a number of partridges about two years old which were hatched on his premises. They are perfectly gentle and are 'as domes ticated in their habits as the common chicken. They go about with the other fowls and in like manner brood and raise their young. This demonstrates the possibility of what has always been considered impossible, thinks Mr. Golio way. Morristown (Tenn.) Gazette. ft 2 o o o o o To Qcf" Before Tfjt People in the Most" Direct W&y Use the Columns of the State Journal. IF Ton hat Lost or Found any thing make it known iltrougk Thm Stmt Journal. IF Yon Want to Buy or Sett any thing, Rent a Room or Tmks Boarders, try a Small Adver tisement in The State Journal. IF You Want a Situation and Need Assistance, a Small Advertise ment tvill be Inserted for thnte days Without Charge, IF You Want to Hire a Blan, a Boy or a Woman, an Advertise ment in This Paper will bring you so many applications that you can have your pick if the best. IF o o You have property to Rent or For Sale, the easiest, simplest and cheapest way to bring it before the public is to put a little Advertisement in The State Journal. It will be read everywhere in the Stats of Kansas. o IF You have anything to Trade, whether it is a Bicycle, a Stove or a Piano, teU the people about it in This Paper, and you will get a Customer. IF You have a Stock -of Goods to sell, m little zs-cent Advertise- o ment may bring you trad worth o ten times the cost. o IF C" o o o o o o o o You have Removed Your Place of Business, if you have new goods or have made any change in your business, teU it. Tell it at the rate of 59 cents per week if you don't want to invest more. IF Money be cartfullyittvested in Advertising it wiU pay big re turns. A "Small Adveritse- ment" in The Sta.tr. Journal costs s cents a line a day. o Small ff, q

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDXESDaT EVEXIXG, JTJL.Y 5, 1899. KLONDIKE GRAZE Not Over, IVrites Miss Emma Kelly From Alaska. More People, Ten to One, Than Two Years Ago. IS PLENTY TO EAT And the Prices Are Reasonable, She Declares. The Topefea Girl Finds Many Improvements. The following letter appears In the Chicago Record of July 4 from Miss Emma Kelly, under date of Lake Ben nett, X. W. T.. June 6: Again I find myself on the shures of Lake Bennett, on my way to Dawson over the route I traversed almost two years ago, when on ray first visit to the Klondike. But how unlike r.iy first journey is the present trip. 'Chen I traveled the route in September and October; this time in May and June. The first trip was made at the begin ning of winter, the present upon the opening of summer in this latitude. In 3897 I landed at Taiya and crossed Chil koot pass on foot, with no companions eave mv motley combination of packers, to whom I paid 40 cents a pound to carry my luggage over the summit. My crossing this trip was from Skaguay over White pass, and the change that has taken place in the scant two years since I first visited the settlements of these northern regions scarcely can be imagined. In September, 1S9T. Skaguay was but a cluster of tents, with a few rude shanties and log cabins, and with no friotel accommodations aside from a few bunkhouses and lunch counters. Today It is quite a compact little city, with many good buildings. It has also a ho tel, run on the American and European plans, with bathrooms and electric lights, and, as the proprietor's letter liead states, "large corral and dog ken nels in connection." The steamer on which I took passage on my second trip left Seattle about the 20th of May, our journey up the coast to Skaguay having been most delight ful. There was no bad weather, while the magnificent coast scenery afforded the passengers constant pleasure. As between May and September, however, 1 prefer the latter month for the north ern journey, as there is less likelihood of meeting cold gusts of wind from the ley regions. Our party of 15 left Ska guay on the morning of June 2, and, crossing the pass, we arrived at Lake Bennett on the evening of the same day. From Skaguay- we traveled for 20 miles by rail to the summit of White pass, over the most wonderful narrow gauge railroad ever constructed. The road winds its serpentinecoursethrough grand mountain scenery and crosses vast glaciers. Arriving at the summit, we left the railroad, as that is its ter minus, and took passage in a big "bob sled" drawn by four horses, in which on June 5 we crossed Summit lake on the Ice, a distance of 12 miles. Even at the great altitude of this northern latitude It was getting late to cross on the ice, and ours was the last party of the sea eon to attempt it. Our sled broke through the Ice in many places, and, getting into the wa ter several times, our clothes were thor oughly soaked. With wet garments it proved a very cold ride, and it seemed 3 certainly should freeze. However, we frossed in safety, and from the foot of the lake we walked two and one-half miles through snow banks ten to twelve feet in height, through which a trail had been cut. At the end of our walk we found the coaches of a stage line. In these we took passage and drove to the little town of "Log Cabin," fourteen miles from the foot of Summit lake, nvhich we reached at about 4 oclock p. xn. As we had eaten nothing since 6 o'clock that morning. I did ample justice to the pork and bean lunch of a wel come counter we found in the little town. In the matter of sleeping ac commodations we were not so fortunate. The town was overrun and we could find no place for a night's lodging. As soon, therefore, as we were released by the Canadian customs officers stationed there we took the first stage and came to Lake Bennett, about ten miles far ther on. The Canadian customs charges at "Log Cabin" are a cause of dissatisfac tion to the travelers coming in. As an illustration I quote herewith some of the duties charged upon personal belong ings. On an $S kodak, $2.50; on a pair of new overalls, $1.50; old sheet music, 20 cents a copy; a mandolin, $4; white sshirts, $1.25 each. These are but sample charges made upon all that the miner takes in with him. It was here on the banks of Lake Ben nett that my packers about the 1st of October, 1897. after climbing over Cbil koot threw down their loads at 10 o'clock .t night, so to m the surroundings look familiar. I have again walked around the portage of one-half mile be tween Lakes Bennett and Lindeman. It was while making the same walk two years ago that I came upon a lone grave y the wayside marked "J. Matthews, age 26." This is the grave of the young man who, having lost his second outfit while lining his boat through the rapids between the lakes, became despondent and took his life. When I heard the ead story two years ago I gathered Eome green spruce boughs and spread upon his grave, and thought of the anx ious mother far away who would wait and watch, but who would look in vain tor news from her boy in the Klondike. Yesterday I revisited the spot and again spread a few spruce boughs upon that lonely grave. The town of Lake Bennett has changed from a mere cluster of tents to a re spectable collection of houses since my former visit, though there are sti'l many tents sheltering those who are waiting for the opening of the lakes to make the start for Dawson, having been re tarded by the very late spring. The Tukon Is open and so are some of the Jakes, but not all. The lakes extend to the Tukon, about 200 miles distant, six or seven of t::em forming a chain from the foot of the pass to the head waters of the great river. Owing to the low stage of the water at this end of Bennett lake the steel steamer in which we shall take passage can not be launched, although it draws but eigh teen inches of water. Many leave daily, crossing in small row-boats and canoes. The little valley of Lake Bennett swarms with a vast multitude who crowd the abins and cover every foot of avail able land with their tents. I decided to wait for a boat, and so se cured a stateroom on the steamer, which has just been complete.! and will start when the water rises sufficiently to launch her. The captain thinks that he will be aaife te go in a day or two. so we shall roori be off for the Canon and White Jtorse rapids, through both of which I pas.d in a. rowboat on my former trip. There are a. number of steamers ready to start as soon as the water will permit. At White Horse rapids and the Canon RHwNjoats stop,- everything is unloaded and hauled around. while passengers may walk or stage it around the narrows. Immense quantities of freight brought by the tramway reach Lake Bennett daily over the Taiya pass, but the Skagway trail, being in excellent condition for pe destrians, seems to have the preference for travel. From the summit of White pass to this place the stage makes use of the railroad beJ. which has been grad ed. Over this grade we made our drive, which gave us an excellent opportunity of observing the wonderful engineering skill shown in surveying and establishing a railroad through this wonderful range of mountains. Trestlework and bridges, from which the traveler looks down for more that 3,0u0 feet into what seem to be bottomless caverns, follow in quick suc cession. Snow-capped mountains with perpendicular sides having the beauty of turquoise greet the eye at every turn of the fifteen mile ride over the summit. One who sees the vast crowd here wait ing to move on is not apt to credit the statement that "the Klondike craze is over." I find more people possibly ten to one now on the way than I saw two years ago. There is an abundance here to eat, and at reasonable prices. A large force of men is working on the Summit railroad and, as the contract calls for its comple tion to Lake Bennett by July 15, every available man who can be secured Is put to work at $4 a day and board. The trip from Bennett to Dawson prom ises to be pleasant, as the weather is growing warmer and the days much longer, the day now continuing until 11 p. m., followed by twilight from 1 to 2 a. m. The boats will run all night with perfect safety. Steamer fare. Including meals and berth, is $100 from Bennett to Dawson, or $75. you furnish your own meals and blankets. From Skagway to this point by ruii and stage the fare is $10. Freight rates from Skagway to this point are from 3 to 5 cents a pound, and from Taiya over the Chilkoot pass they are 4 cents a pound. The greatest ob stacles the traveler now encounters are custom house officials, who sometimes keep men waiting two or threee weeks before clearing them for Dawson. This morning three men in a small boat, who left the foot of Lake Linderman for their camp five miles distant, were cap sized, and in the struggles to riirht their boat two were drowned. One of the men i drowned was Frank Kane, from Towa. a pioneer m AiasKa. ite was about 38 vears of age and had been pioneering in Aiaska twelve years. Kane was a typica speci men of the frontiersman, a noble-hearted fellow and a leading business man in Douglas. He had accumulated quite a lit tle fortune, and leaves a wife and two children at Douglas island. Yesterday a double-decker loaded with 500 live sheep sank in very deep water while crossing the lake. The scow began to leak, and before the boa't could be land ed it went down, drowning 25o sheep. The accident, of course, will shorten the sup ply of mutton in Dawson this summer. The boat is supposed to have been scut tled by some rivals in the sheep business. 3I0RE ACCIDENTS. Supplemental Fourth, of July Casualty List. Fourth of July comes but once a year, and perhaps it is well that it does not come oftener. for if Young America had the chance of burning his fingers, letting cannon crackers go off in his hands and j blowing his lace full of powder he would be crippled ail the year round. Claud Pollard, living at Wakarusa, was probably the most seriously injured. To- I pother with several of the neighboring young farmers he started out to cele- brate the Fourth in the old fashioned t way. by firing anvils. They procured the i necessary anvils and ring, and loading them made a rush to get out of the way. I Young Pollard had gone about 200 feet from the anvils when the explosion oe- curred. The ring which was between i the anvils was broken into email pieces and one of these struck him in the left leg just below the knee, producing an ugly looking wound. lie was immediately brought to Topeka and Dr. Lindsey. with the assistance of Mr. Lee, had an X-ray examination made of the injured member. No piece of the ring was found. Mr. Pollard will stay with friends in this city until he is able I to leave for his home. j George Wilson, living on East Four- teenth street, was knocked down and had one of his eyes injured bv the explosion I of a shotgun with which lie was celebrat ing. Mr. H. L. Sherburne had his risrht hand 1 severely burned by the premature ex plosion of a giant cannon cracker. The wound is very painful but not serious. Theo. McKibben. a young man living at the corner of Thirteenth and Western avenue, had his face burned by the un expected explosion of an over-loaded toy cannon. Several pieces of powder were picked out of his face. Paul Marshall injured his right hand by shooting some powder and small pieces of wad from a blank cartridge into it. A bad flesh wound is the result. A young man of Russian descent picked up a cannon cracker which he thought was not lighted. It went oil! and his left eye is temporarily closed. As a mt-mento of the Fourth and a proof of the unreliability of those cheap cast iron blank cartridge pistols, Fred Schlegel, living on Third street, a small boy of perhaps 13 years, is nursing a very 'sore little finger. These pistols shoot both fore and aft. and it was an aft explosion that Friil claims blew a hole through his, little finger. The wound is very painful and badly powder burned. BICYCLE RACES. A. A. Faus Treats the Riders to Some Surprises. The bicycle races at the park attract ed an immense crowd. It was almost impossible to run the races on account of the condition of the track, but con sidering the fact that it was the first race riding of the year the Topeka "push" made good time. There is talent here and development will turn out several fast riders. Summaries follow: Mile open Faus won: Wall, second; Sardou, third. Time. 2:36. Mile handicap T. A. A. trophy cup Faus won; Wadleigh, second; Knowles, third. Time, 2:30. Half mile open Knowles won; Allen, second; Wall, third. Time, 1:20. Two mile handicap Wall won; Faus (scratch) second; Wadleigh, 45 yards, third. Time 4:15. FOURTH AT THE PARK. Large Crowds Try to Enjoy the At tractions. The city was about deserted on the Fourth and from, the appearance of Garfield park the people must have gone there. The ground is covered with partly burned firecrackers and exploded shells and the tree tops are riddled from the volleys of revolver shots. The band played during the afternoon and even ing but the continuous performance of explosives more than balanced the music and only those very near the band stand could hear the selections. In the evening the Modocs gave "The Filipino" in the Casino and as many people as could pack in were accommo dated. All the available space around the Casino was occupied by carriages and people but as with the band music the noise was so great that only a few could hear well. The bank of Soldier creek was lined with people who threw firecrackers at the passing boats just to hear the girls scream. The gasoline launch, with a search light at the prow and a cannon in the stern, steamed up and down fir ing and throwing the search light around much, to the amusement of the crowd. In the afternoon, when the rain came up, part of the crowd retreated to the Casino, band stand and other places of shelter and the rest made for the cars. The big drops commenced to fall and there was a mad rush to get aboard. The crowd would not wait for the seats to be turned over but rode to town backwards. Grange Picnic. Farmers of Shawnee county are in vited to meet at, Oak Grange hall. Mis sion township, July 18. Bro. Jones, worthy master of the NationalcGran,ge .will deliver an address. TRUST TROUBLES. Internal Dissension In Insur ance Combination. Talk of Disbanding: the Organi zation as a Result. PACKING HOUSE RATE. Some One Broke Over the Iron clad Rules. In Spite of This It Is Claimed There Is No Trust. The state administration and a few of the insurance men in Topeka have been attempting to make the people be lieve that there is no combination among insurance companies for the pur pose of maintaining rates. The super intendent of Insurance has stated that the new system of rates Is not a com Mnation and that the companies are taking the steps already announced from a sense of justice and fairness and that there is no effort anywhere being made to foster a trust or a combination, A new and unexpected demonstra tion of the fact that there is a combi nation or a trust, among the insurance companies come from Kansas City and Chicago. It is an instance in which the governing; committee of the Insurance company union attempts to enforce the regulations of the combine and fails. The governing committee has sus tained charges against several compan ies which, were taking the risks on the Schwarzschild Sulzberger packing house at Kansas City, Kan., at $1 when the rate promulgated by the union is $1.20. This same union is the one which promulgated the rates now being adopt ed for use in Kansas. The annual meeting of this union is to be held at Niagara Falls in Septem "ber. Th'; grievance committee has re ported its findings back to the govern ing committee which, has notified the insurgent companies that unless the packing house rate is advanced to $1.20 the union rate, there will be no neces sity of having the annual meeting. This announcement means that the action of the companies in refusing to observe tthe union agreement on the packing houses is likely to disrupt the union, a condition which would remove the necessity for the annual meeting. When the representatives of the in surance companies, who are members of the governing committee, heard of the reduction in rates, each of them at once cancelled the risks he held on the pack ing house property. Then the trouble commenced. Failure on the part of the union companies to co-operate to secure this advance brought great trouble to the governing committee and the end is not yet. The packing houses referred to In the foregoing are in Kansas. They are Kan sas property and the companies which have been in this fuss about a reduc tion of rates on the packing houses are licensed and are doing business in this state. If a company engaged in writing this business is not authorized to do business in this starfe the insurance de partment is not aware of it. And, be sides it would be illegal business. The governing committee of the union which is in trouble is also the governing committee for the same union which is operating in Kansas. This is mani festly true because the packing houses are in Kansas. In the face of these facts It is cer tainly out the question for any man, official o representative of the state in surance department or insurance com panies to deny the existence of this combination or trust. When insurance men admit that this new schedule of rates or the rates about which so much has been said by the ad ministration which claims credit for the reductions, that they are promulgated by this union in Chicago what grounds are left upon which to base the assertion that no combination exists? There 3s an insurance combination and eveVy man in Kansas who has given the subject a moment's consider ation, knfws it, notwithstanding the de nials wh h have come from high places. In thisj connection it is highly amus ing to ncte that the governor is mighty sick of tle jab he has undertaken to re duce int;irance rates, lie has aroused the antagonism of the insurance men all over the state and the managers of the companies, sitting in comfortable of fices devn east, are writing to their local agffits to inquire what new mania has tak?h possession of the administra tive powers of the state. The insurance men in Topeka are up in arms and say they wili not adopt and use the new rates because the system upon which they are: scheduled is entirely wrong. Then, too, the effort to reduce rates has restored the Clarkson rate combi nation bureau and this is not a piece of business calculated to improve the opinion which patrons of insurance companies have of the administration. One of the leading insurance men in Topeka said today: "The governor, I am told., would like to let go of this business, but he has gone so far with it that he can not retrace his steps, and it looks as though the whole business might yet be abandoned.-- It was a cheap po litical scheme at the outset. Incidentally 1 might remark that insurance men are laughing at the recent denial that there Is a union among the companies and also of the fact that there is no combi nation on this new rate matter. There is a union and a combination both and no man who pretends to have any knowledge of the situation and the ac tual conditions would permit himself to be trapped into denying it." A GOOD GROWING WEEK. Rains Throughout the State and Crops Doing Well. The following' is the climate and crop report for the week ending July 4 as issued bv Observer Jennings: GKNERAL CONDITIONS. A fine growing and harvesting week. Light showers visited nearly every county with pood rains from Kingman north, find from Gove and Sheridan eastward to Pottawatomie and Nemaha. EASTERN DIVISION. Early corn is generally being laid by, and in he central and southern coun ties is tasseling and silking. Iate corn is being" well cleaned; the corn in gen eral is in very grotxi condition. Wheat harvest ias be?un in the northern coun ties ant is nearing completion in the central:; threshing has begun in the southern. Oats are unusually fine, some count ies reporting them the finest in five ye?; s. Fiax is fine and is turning in the suth. The second crop of alfalfa is readf to cut, and in many places is being cjit. Clover and timothy are a fine crow. New hay is being marketed in Coffev and Osage. MIDDLE DIVISION. "Whea harvest has begun in the north &nd is jwell underway in the central counties. Is nearing completion in the central and southern counties. Early corn is generally being laid by in good condition,, late corn is being rapidly cleaned: early corn is tasseling, and in the south it is silking. Oats are ready to cut in the south and in some places the harvest has begun. The oats are fair in Barber and McPherson and good in Cowley, Harvey, Jewell, Marion and Rush. The second croo of alfalfa is ready to cut in Cowley, Reno and Sa line. WESTERN DIVISION. Wheat harvest is progressing in Ford, Ness, Norton and Trego, and begins in Thomas on the 5th. The late rains have done much, good to all crops. Wheat and barley are filling well, though the wheat is generally thin on the ground. Corn and forage crops are growing finely. The range grass is generally very good though in Thomas and Mor ton it needs rain. Potatoes are in blos som in Trego,; Norton reports grass hoppers being destroyed by disease. IDEA SPREADING. "What Would Jesus Do" Rally ing Cry of New Party. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon'3 book "What Would Jesus Do?" furnishes the principles for a new political party. A dispatch says: Des Moines, la., July 5. The United Christian party of Iowa met here today and nominated the following ticket: For governor, C. D. Heacock of Brigh ton; judge of supreme bench, John M. Helmick of Dubuque; superintendent of public instruction, W. L. C. Pidgeon of Richland. The following resolution was adopted: "We believe in direct legislation of the people, and in order to make a govern ment from God through Christ, we should be governed in all things, law making Included, by the standardWhat would Jesus do?" A national convention will be held to morrow. ISLAND GOVERNMENTS To Be Established Without Waiting For Congress. Washington, July 5. Since the order of the president continuing the legal existence of the insular commission, the members have been busily engaged in preparing a code of laws to take the place of the Spanish statutes. The best legal advice the commissioners have been able to obtain supports their own view that such a new code can be legal ly adopted by the military government of the island with the sanction of the president and without awaiting the ac tion of congress. Such a step would give the islanders the advantage of modern laws under which the regenera tion of the island could be carried on by its military governor as long as was desirable before raising the question of Porto Rico's admission to actual terri torial rights. It is considered probable that a large part at least of the new code of laws being formulated by the commssion will be adopted and put in force before the meeting of congress. SOME MAD MEN. Plambeau Club Shot No Fourth of July Fire Works. The Topeka Flambeau club Is out of sorts today. For the first time in 25 years it missed shooting oft any fireworks on the Fourth of July. But it wasn't the fault of the club or of anyone connected with it that there wasn't an abundance of fireworks to burn up this year it was simply a combination of circumstances which prevented the explosives from get ting here in time. About fifty members of the club, ac companied by quite a delegation of other Topeka people, accepted the invitation of the Rossville people to assist in their cele bration this year, and the crowd left for the village up the Kaw on the noon train on the Union Pacitic. People who claim to be good guessers on the size of crowds claim that there were 4,0tl people on the grounds, which were about a mile from town. Sheriff Cook suys there were enough teams to cover a quarter section farm. Anyway, people came from all the surrounding country, and from St. Marys and other towns that had no celebrations of their own. There were two bands pres ent, the St. Marys ba.nd and the one from Eskriilge, and the amount of hot air they pumped through their instruments could not have been measured by an ordinary gas meter. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Hurvey made the principal address. Sheriff Cook says a. Republican badge was pinned on the speaker, and temporarily, at least, he had the appearance of a. good Republican. He made the eagle soar in a manner that Rossville had not seen for man v a day so high, in fact, that it brought down rain during the afternoon, and the crowd was drenched, as there was no place for shelter, but they took it philosophically. In the meantime Oscar Swayze. secre tary of the flambeau club, had been keep ing the wires hot in an effort to locate the fireworks. He ordered them of a Chicago house about ten cin.ys ago. but on Monday night only one little box of bombs had arrived, out of a hundred dollars' worth of combustibles that had been or d er ed Mr. Swayze w i red ail the way down the line, but he could get no trace of the belated fireworks, and the crowd bad to be satisfied with one little box of bombs. "We have been dealing with that house for 25 years," said Mr. Swayze today, "and this is the first time it has ever failed us. We did not care so much to shoot off the stuff, but we hated to dis appoint the people in that way." T. B. KEED IN GERMAN E. Former Speaker Taking the Waters at the Schwalbach Spa. Frankfort-on-Main, July 5. Ex Speaker Thomas B. Reed and family are taking the waters at the Schwal bach spa. From Schwalbach Mr. Reed will go to Cologne and Biebrich. WITHOUT HANDLEBARS. Milwaukee Man Slakes Fifty-two Miles by the Use of His Feet Alone. Milwaukee, "Wis., July 5. William T. Bolttolfson. secretary of the Mercury Cycling club, today rode to Racine and return on a bicycle without handlebars. He made the ride without fall or mis hap and covered the distance, fifty-two miles in three hours and twenty-seven minutes. Thp ride will be placed on record with the Century Road club of America, un der whose auspices the trip was made. It is doubtful if a similar feat was ever before attempted. ROBERT DAI HURT. Is Severely Injured by Explosion of Cannon. Mr. Robert E. Day, son of R. W. Day, division engineer of the Rock Island, was severely injured Tuesday by the premature explosion of a small cannon. He was loading the cannon and had it in his hand when it went off. His face is badly powder marked and disfigrured and the sight of his left eye may be per manently injured. Picnic at Reform School. Special train by Rock Island to Re form school will run tomorrow (Thurs day), leaving- depot at 10:30 a. m., re turning 5 p. m. Fare 10 cents round trip. Lowest Prices, 10 bars AVhite Russian soap, 25c. Whittelsey Her. Co., 2nd and Madison. EAR ROOM FIGHT. One Man Almost Killed and Several Injured. A free for all fight took place Tuesday afternoon in the bar room in the rear of Larry Sheehan's Clipper restaurant on East Sixth street and as a result George Peyton is not expected to live. No one knows how the fight started and it was probably a drunken brawl in which the contestants mixed indis criminately in their endeavors to injure someone else. The fight occurred about six o'clock. The room where the bar is located is in the rear of the restaurant and a few step higher than the front part of the building. The room is large and was well tilled with men when the brawl started. The crowd had been drinking there all the afternoon and was well under the Influence of liquor. The fight started suddenly, according to the stories told by eye witnesses, and most of the persons in the room ran out as soon as the trouble commenced. Philip Mayer, who formerly played ball here, struck George Peyton on his head with a heavy iron cuspidor crushing his skull. He was removed to Stormont hospital and is in a precarious condi tion. Mayer was struck on the wrist by a beer mug. The mug was broken and the cords and arteries of the arm wera severed. William Lawless struck a man on the slile of his head and the force of the blow broke two of his fingers. He says he was trying to stop the fight. Mike Kelly, the bartender of the place, interfered and tried to quell the disturbance. He was struck in the mouth and several teeth loosened. The other parties in the room at the time and more or less mixed up in the trouble were Fred Ogden, James Mc Givern, Mike Waggoner, jr., William Miller and H. Beedy. Larry Sheehan, the proprietor of the place, was out of town when the fight occurred. The fight occurred just as the day and night forces of police were chang ing beats and it was not until the fight was over that the officers heard of it. Owing to the noise of firecrackers the officers on their beats did not hear the trouble. When it was reported at police station Sergeant Donovan went at once to the scene of the trouble and ordered that the place be closed. He could learu nothing about the fight as no one woul'l give him any informa tion and he was told by the bartender that no one Mas hurt. Today Chief Ramsey visited the place and said that if the-joint was opened again he would pull the whole outfit without a warrant or anything elso. Arrests will probably follow as soon Cts the officers are able to find out who ttie offenders are. Another fight occurred in a pawn shop run by ex-Policeman Watts on Kansas avenue between Second and Third streets. There is a joint in tha rear of tile pawn shop and some who saw the fight say it staited there but Watts says it was a dispute over the payment of interest on a pawn ticket. LEFT THE RAILS. Whole Passenger Train Tips Over In Nevada. "Winnemuca, New, July 5. Train Xo. 1, eastbound, left the rails at a point 17 miles east of hc re this forenoon. Partic ulars of the a-cidenc are very meager. The engine lef'; the track. A box car behind the engine kept its place, but the whole line of d iy coaches and Pullmans left the rails and turned oompletelv over. Ten persons were more or less injured. One old lady is Reported to be in a critical condition, A negro porter had both leg's broken. So far as can be learned no one was killed outright. LONG RAINY SEASON. Some Observations by Gen. Harris Gray Otis on the Philippines. Washington, July 5. Among the pres ident's recent visitors was Gen. Gray Otis. He was also in consultation at the war department with Secretary Al ger and Adjt. lien. Corbin. These con ferences were lor the purpose of hear ing direct from' Gen. Otis his views on the conduct of "the Philippine campaign and his opinior: as'to its further prose cution. His judgment is held in high esteem by the administration, and while his communications to the president and the war department officials were confidential, it is believed that he had practical suggestions to make that will be of much value. In discussinir the situation in the Philippines, Gn. Otis reiterates his statement that, with 50,000 men, Major General Otis, now in command in the Philippines, cai end all resistance to American authority. He says he does not pretend tosbe an authority on the master, but th:3 is merely his opinion. In talking fursher of conditions there, Gen. Otis said:" "It is a mistake to suppose that the rainy season l;.sts only a few months. I have seen statements in the newspa pers over here rfhat the rainy period wiil end about September 15. Thit is un true, and 'sucli false statements will tend to cause dissatisfaction among the American people, who will not under stand why aciive operations are not resumed at thtt time. The rainy season lasts from May until into December.. "The country dries quickly, and in a few weeks the toads are as hard as can be. During tht rainy season the whole of the island of Luzon is a bog. I can gi"e you an illustration of how sudden is the change from wet to dry. On De cember 1 last I ordered the Nebraska regiment, to occtupy McCIoud's hill. The regiment went 'iut to the hill, every man thinking that le would not live a day. Col. Stotzenbu-'g was terribly worried, and came to sbe me about it, but the order had beeniissued by the corps com mander, and hxd to be obeyed. "In a day or. two the Nebraska regi ment contained the most delighted set of men you evSr saw. The ground on which the camp was pitched had dried, and the air was cool and pleasant. "The year in Luzon is divided into about three-quarters rain and one-quarter dry. A hundred inches of rain falls in the wet season. One year they had 130 inches. The year they had only TO inches was called exceptionally dry. I obtained these figures from the Manila observatory. "The Taeials are the only tribe oppos ing the United States in Luzon. I be lieve that the rebellion wiil end when their resistance has been quelled." China's Monetary Trouble. Washington, July 5. The sudden rise in copper is responsible for extraordi nary difficulties now confronting the Chinese currency system, according to United States Consul Fowler. The re sult has been that the cash or subsid iary Chinese coin, is now worth much more than its token value in silver. In fact the Chinese government is paying 1.35 taels for the copper and zinc, out of which is minted enough cash to make one tael in the aggregate. The consul says that in the end the present great scarcity in cash will cause the issue of silver subsidiary coinage. Arms Smuggled From France. Madrid. July a. The prefect of Navarre announces the seizure of four cases of arms smuggled from France for the use of the Ca-riiiU. RIOTING KEEPS UP. Many Conflicts Between Police and People In Spain. Barcelona, July 5. There was a re newal of the disorders here last night. Bands of rioters attacked the church of Santa Matrona and the Jesuit school. The police charged and the mob pelted with stones. Later the police were re inforced by gendarmes and infantry and finally scattered the mob. Many con flicts took place and many people were wounded. The theaters are closed. SOUTH AFRICAN AlOIY. England Is Ready to Send 40,000 or 50,000 Men. London, July 5. The Pall Mall Ga zette this afternoon says the secretary of state for war, the Marquis of Lans downe, in conjunction with the mili tary chiefs, has completed arrange ments to dispatch 40,000 to 50.000 troops of all arms to South Africa. In the event of matters taking a turn for the worse. It is added that all the necessary ar rangements have been made there for the distribution of the troops on their arrival. BY A CANNON FIRECRACKER A Formosa Blacksmith Has Sis Hand Torn OfE Formoso, Kan., July 5. Frank Leidig, a blacksmith of this place, had his right hand torn oft by the discharge of a cannon cracker yesterday. Dr. J. W. Johnson, railroad surgeon, amputated a. greater part of the hand. CHARMED BY A SNAKE. From the Lewiston Evening Journal. 1 Bar Harbor, Me., July 1. Col. E. W. Bass of West Point and a party of la dies who are spending the summer at Bar Harbor, were enjoying an after noon at Schooner Head the other day, when one of the ladies suddenly called the attention of another lady in the party to a big snake directly behind her. The latter, glancing over her shoulder saw the creature, and fairly looked the viper full in its eyes. The snake was fully four feet long and two inches or more through and was of a brownish color with white circles or rings oil its back from head to the tip of tail. She says that the snake was a most lovely creature to look at, and that, though she is invariably afraid of snakes, her fear vanished the instant she beheld it. Instead of running away from it, as her companion did, she says that she was instantly fascinated by the snake, both by its beauty and the "indescribable something" in its eyes which seemed to hold her transfixed to the spot as soon as she beheld it. Circling stealthily and wavelike about her, never once taking its eyes from hers, the snake lifted itself up like a spiral, with its head poised nearly two feet from the ground, and held the wo man motionless in its charm. This it repeated for a second time, coming still nearer to her before Col. Bass came running back to her assistance. Seeing the danger the lady was in, the colonel picked up a large stick and began a savage attack upon the serpent. Though he struck it several terrific blows. Col. Bass was unable to kill the charmer, and the snake finally slipped noiselessly away and became lost to view in the tthick undergrowth. It was some mo ments before the lady wholly recovered from the spell and began to realize the great danger she had been in. She is sure that the snake meant to do her injury and was charming her for that purpose. The snake was the largest ever seen on the island and unlike the other snakes usually found here. Col. Bass thinks it was a large adder and regrets now that he did not succeed in killing the creature. GOYERNOR AUCTIONEER. Mr. Stanley Sells a Flow at Girard Celebration. Governor Stanley let the Girard people know how he has been so successful in raising money for churches by acting as auctioneer at their Fourth, of July celebration Tuesday when he auction eered a plow, the proceeds to go to the Sunday school having the largest num ber in the line of march. He knocked the plow down only after the bidding had reached $40, almost twice what the implement was worth. CARNEGIE HONORED. Aberdeen, Scotland. July 5. The free dom of Tain Caithness was bestowed up on Andrew Carnegie today. The town was decorated with flags and bunting, the union jack and stars and stripes floating side by side over the mottoes of welcome. The provost, in conferring the freedom at the town hall, said the world had never seen a man comparable with the "great and distinguished Scotch-American, in the magnitude of his liberality to public li braries and in the advancement of art and education. upon which, in. Great Uritain and America, he had expenued four million pounds." Mr. Carnegie made a brief reply. A Snap. Buttermilk soap (3 cakes in box) 5c box. Whittelsey Mer. Co., 2nd and Mad. An Epidemic of Diarrhoea. Mr. A. Sanders, writing from Coacnanut Grove, Fla., says there has been cuite an epidemic of diarrhoea there. He had a se vere attack and was cured by four doses of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Hemedy. He says he also recom mended it to others and they say it is the best medicine they ever used. For sale by all druggists. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Chicago. July 5. WHEAT Weaker cables, an increase in the English and American visible supply, together with large northwestern receipts i and favorable cropreports combined to form a weaker wheat market today, bep tember opened at 74S75c. compared with 7jc, Saturday's closing price. Offerings were heavy and the market was appar ently without any support. September srvlfl" nff stelilv to 741 c. Diiluth and I Minneapolis receipts were 1.378 cars ffnnr days business) against Klo cars la.st weeK. Local receipts were 277 cars. 7 of contract grade. This was a three days' accumu lation. The visible suoply showed-an in crease of 1.270.00 bushels. CORN Corn opened a shade below Sat urday at S41ic. A decline to 3414fie fol lowed. Receipts were 2.3G4 cars. OATS Oats ruled weak with the other grains. An accumulation of 863 cars at Chicago helped depress the market. Sep tember opened unchanged at 2lc and de clined steadilv- to 218c. PROVISIONS Provisions were heavy on large receipts. September pork start ed 2V2c under Saturday at $S.5o and sold off to $S.4712. September lard opened steady at $5. 2015.22: September ribs opened unchanged at $4.S0 and rallied to 4.ri:V 4.92V,. BARLEY Cash, 39420. RYE Julv. Sftc: September. Z7c. TIMOTHY August. J2.5.V'I2.57Vi-; Septem ber, $2.47Vj'&2.50; October. $2.45. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago, Julv 5. HOGS Estimated receipts of hogs to day. 42.000: tomorrow. 3o,000. Market a shade lower. Mixed and butchers, $3.75"ti; 3.S71i: rood heavv. J3.8(ra3.9a; rough heavy, $3.6&3.75: light. $3.8Kfi 4.02V.. CATTLE Receipts. lS.uOb. Market shade lower. Beeves. $4.755.0; cows and heif ers, 2i; Texas steers a$4&5.10; stackers and feeders. W.SO'eM.SO. SHEEP Receipts. 10,000. Market, steady. Sheep, $3fa'5.ir; lambs. $4-'ci7. Official receipts and shipments for yes terday: HO&S Receipts. 36,000; shipments, 12.K5. CATTLE Receipts, 11,538; shipments, 3, 8S6. SHEEP Receipts. 1G.21S; shipments, S79. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City. July 5. CATTLE Receipts. 2.500 natives 2.500 Texans. Market opened steady, .closed a little slow. Native steers, heavv, $4.75 5.35; medium. $4. 50ft 5.25: light. $4'u5.2.v. Tex as steers. $2.75(3.25: Texas cows. $2.G5'ci3.5o; native cows and heifers, $2.3Tfj4.75: stoek ers and feeders, $3.5u'5; bulls, $3.25fi3.75. HOGS Receipts. 11,000. Opened strong, closed about steady. Rulk of sale3, $3.80 (!j3.95; heavv. $3.75'i 4: packers and mixed, $3.75i3.i0; light. $3.63(33.85; yorkers, $3.s 4(5: pigs, $:l.50'a3.70. SHEEP Receipts. 2.000. Market strong. Lambs. $4.D0fe6.T5: clipped muttons, $3. 75115; stockers and feeders, $3.253.75; culls, $2 4(3.25. Kansas City Produce ".Market Kansas City. July 5. WHEAT Close: September. etFsc. Cash: No. 2 hard. 661Vt(67c: No. 3, 63V&S6l:: No. 2 red. 7o71e; K0. 3. 67ft SS'ac No. 2 spring, 63'M(67c:' No. 3. 62Vti4c. CORN September, S07e. Cash: No. 3 mixed. 31k4i32c; No. 2 white, 321g32c; No. 3, 31 k.c. OATS No. 2 white, 28'52SVie. RYE-NO. 2. 57e. HAY Choice timothy, $iCsS.50; choice prairie. $S.50. Ul'TTER Creamery, 16'6c; dairy, 13c EGGS Fresh, 10c. New York Money Market. New York, July 5. MONEY Money on call firm at 5i per cent; prime mercantile paper, 34fi4 per cent: sterling exchange steady, with act ual business in bankers' bills at $4.87V.H for demand and at $4.S5ViS( Vi for GO days; posted rates. $4.Stt4.S7 and $4s!H4.9. SILVER Silver certificates. 60fGlc; bar silver. 60c: Mexican dollars, 4sv.e. BONDS Government bonds steady. 3s, registered. 10S; coupon, 10S: new 4s. reg istered, 1291-'.: coupon, 12!i; old 4s. regis tered, 112H: coupon, 11214: 5s, registered, 112; coupon, 112; 2s, registered, 101. Topeka Markets Today. CATTLE. COWS $2. 50 3. 75. VEAL CALVES $3,504(4.75. STEERS $4ri.50. HEIFERS $3'tf'4.2o. HOGS. LIG HT $3.25S 3.45. PIGS $3.10(3.30. MEDIUM $3.3.Va 3.55. GRAIN. NO. 2. WHEAT 65c. NO. '2 CORN 30c. NO. 2 OATS 2527c. HAY fci-M.7. I RODUCE, EGGS 10c. SPRING CHICKENTS From $2.50 to $3 per dozen. HENS 7c per pound. COUNTRY BUTTER 11 tJ12i,4c. Elgin, 111.: Creamery butter, ISo. Sugar Market. New York. July B. SUGAR Raw steady: fair refining, fc; centrifugal 86 test, 4 7-lSAiVic; molasses sugar. 374c. Refined steady. COFFEE Market quiet. No. 7, C&c. Joseph's Tips. Furnished by J. C. Goings, Commission Merchant. 112 East Fifth St., Topeka, Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. New York, July 5. Foreign houses have about an equal number of orders, buying specialties and selling standard issues. Bull points are most pronounced on local shares and Grangers. Union Pacific pre ferred, St. Paul. Missouri Pacific, New York Central and Pennsylvania. There will be some taking of profits on bulges, but advantage certainly should be taken of recessions of a point or so to acquire any of the stocks above mentioned. Tho fact that there wiil be no strike on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit and that, all grievances have been settled should be reflected in higher prices for the stock. Norfolk common is a bargain. The com pany will make from 3I? to 4 per cent on it this year. It will be a dividend payer within the next six months. Get some federal Steel stock and hold it. J. ARTHUR JOSEPH. Market Gossip. Furnished by J. C. Goings, Commission Merchant, 112 East Fifth St.. Topeka, Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. Chicago receipts: Wheat 277 cars, graded 7 cars: corn 2.3H4 cars, graded 454 cars; oats b63 cars, graded H2 cars. Chicago: Receipts of hogs. 42,000: left over. l.aoO: opened slow, about steady; cattle, 19.000. steady: sheepe. 1.000. steadv. Kansas Citv: Receipts of hogs. 14.000; cattle. 6. fOO: Omaha: Receipts o hogs, 8. 000: cattle. 3.000. Northwestern receipts: Duluth 73V cars, last year 9ii cars; Minneapolis 643 cars, last year 101 cars. Chicago: This week puts wheat 73c, calls 77c: corn puts Sac, calls 34i.c, Sep tember option. Kansas City receipts, three days: Wheat 24S cars, last year 4S cars; corn 123 cars, last year 50 cars; oats IS cars, last year 17 cars. St. Louis close: Wheat, cash 743Jc. July 74c asked. September 75e asked, Decem ber 77c bid: corn, cash 33t,c bid, July 33c asked: oats, cash 27c, July 23V2C, Septem ber 21c asked. Kansas City cash market: No. 2 hard wheat. 5y pound test. 6o1,2'((67c: No. 2 mixed corn, 31l-2ric: No. 2 mixed oats. 25ft2tc. New York: Export sales, 15 loads wheat and ?0 loads corn. Chicago: Puts September wheat 70te, calls 7sc, good next week. Earnings of L. Or N. for the fourfh week in June increase $S3.705; for the month of June, increase $252,125. Chicago visible: Wheat. n,322.W0 bushels; Corn. 4,HM1.0i') bushels: oats, 806.000 bushels. Chicago: Puts September wheat 731-g'((14c, calls 741fa-,nc: puts September corn 3:34'(i) inc. calls 34r; curb September wheat New York close: Wheat, July "SVic, Sep tember 7Sc, December SoaC Range of Fiices. Furnished by J. C. Goings. Commission Merchant. 112 East Fifth street. Topeka, Kan., receiver -and shipper of grain. Chicago. July 5. Articles. Open High Low Close Sat. WHEAT Julv 73ti 7.T4 72' 72'4 74 Sept 75-74 75 73 73- 754- Dec 76- "ti 7o',a 75'fc 77 CORN Julv 34H-34 34H 33 33 34V4-1i Sept 34-Vs 34- 33' 33 341- Dec 34 34 33ii 33Vi 34 OATS July 24 24 23 23 JC4-14 Sept 21 21 20 20- 21 POKK Julv S 32 8 32 8 30 S 30 8 32-33 Sept 8 55 8 55 8 47 8 47 8 57 L.A RD Julv 5 07 5 07 5 05 5 05-07 5 10 Sep't 5 22 5 22 5 17 5 17-20 3 22-23 RI BS Julv 4 75 4 75 Sept ...4 90 4 P2 4 90 4 90 415 KANSAS CITY WHEAT July 60 66 65 65 66 Sept 67 67 66 66 68 Ranges of Prices on Stock. Furnished bv J. C. Goings, Commission Merchant, 112 Earn Fifth street. Topeka, Kan., receiver and siiipper of grain. New York. Julv 5. Stocks. lOp'n High! Sugar 356 I 160 3Jeople's Gas 121 122 Met. St. Ry. 227 227 Am. Tobacco 92 5 A. S. W 54 55 P.. R. T 116 119 Leather 71 71 Federal Steel 5SVi 5S Fed. Steel Pfd 81 81 C. B. Q. K!S l:$S Rock Island ns lix St. Paul 132 133 Atchison 1H 20 Atchison Pfd 5S! 60 Manhattan lls! 11 Western Union 90 S0 Mo. Pacific 44 4n U. P. Pfd 7S-J 79 Union Pacific 44 45 C. N. W 160i 161 N. Y. Central.. 140 141 C. C. C 68 Reading Pfd 61 62 T. C. 1 641- 66 No. Pac. Pfd 77 78 No. Pac 50 51 Pacific Mail 48 49 L N 7'1 7 Denver Pld 7S 78 B. J ,....,..1 21 6J t l se: J es. rirl55 120- 226 92 53 116 71 5S 81 137 118 132

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1899. j v. 11 4lj Excursion Rales. This list contains a few of the more Important points to which unusually low rates have been made. For infor mation about other points or occasions as well as particulars regarding train service, sleeping car reservations, etc.. Call on or address the undersigned. Los Angeles and return, $52.00 daily to and including July 8. Pueblo. Colorado Springs or Denver and return, $19.00; daily to and including July 11. Salt Lake City or Ogden, $32.00; daily to and Including July 11 Glenwood Springs and return, $31.00; dailv to and including July 11. Richmond. Va and return, $31.25; July 10 to 12. inclusive. Indiapolls, Ind.. and r turn, $17.50; July 1 to 20, Inclusive. Pittsburg. Pa., and return, $23.40, July 31 and August 1, inclusive. The Santa Fe offers unusual attrac tions to persons who desire to travel In comfort and luxury and on fast trains. The tracks are rock-ballasted; the bridges are of steel or stone or both: grade crossings are minimized: the cars are lighted by electricity; while the dining rooms, dining cars and lunch counters are under the management of Mr. Fred Harvey, and are not equalled any where. Passengers on the Santa Fe find there's comfort in every turn of the wheels. T. L. King, Agent, A. T. S. F. Ky., Topeka, Kansas. itiiiJitiyiiiiii mm SHORTEST LIME. COLORADO FLYSR. Rest and Health to Mother and Child MRS. WIXSLOW8 SOOTHING STRUT lias been used for over FIFTY YEARS BY MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEP3TH ING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the (il'MS, AL LAYS all PAIN. CURES TV IND COLIC and is the best remedy for DIARRHOEA, fold by .Druggists in every part of the world. Be pure ard ask for "Mr?. Win Blow's Hoothlng Syrup.'- and take no Oibex kind. Twenty-five cents a bottia. LAWYERS GET BIG FEES. Over $400,000 In Cash and Securi ties "Worth Half a Million Paid For Golden Cross Suits. Los 'Angeles, Cal., July 5. Of the cash, fees paid out in settlement of the Golden Cross mining litigation that a few days ago was brought to a success ful close in the United States circuit court in this city 15 Los Angeles at torneys divided between them $183,000. The remaining $ir6 000 went to nine lawyers of San Francisco, whose fees averaged a little over $17,333 per man, w hile a San Diego firm. Gibson Titus, obtained fees aggregating over $66,000. Besides these cash rewards Jefferson Chandler, formerly of St. Louis, and D. M. Del mas and Samuel Shortridge of San Francisco, have obtained securities worth $500,000 to be legally divided be tween them, and as his part of the award Colonel Isaac Trumbo will re alize a life's ambition and probably became a millionaire mine owner. The Gulden Cross properties, the rich est gold producers in this end of the state, except the Utica and Argonaut, are locattd in the Colorado desert, 14 miles from Yuma, nine miles from the nearest point on the Colorado river. About 15 years ago three mines that tiave proved the great producers of the Golden Cross group were located tinder the names of Little Mary. Little Mabel and the Black I-iutte. The three mines are now known as the Golden Cross, the Golden Queen and the Golden Crown. Low Rates to the East Your attention is directed to the ex ceptionally low rates in effect this com ing wison to nearly every prominent point in the east. Never before has such an excellent opportunity been afforded for a summer vacation tour, or for visuing friends in the east. TVe mention below a few f the places to which greatly reduced rates have been made. The Union Pa cific is the line that will give you the best service to any of these points. Detroit. Mich., July 5-10. Rate One ffare. plus $2.00. for the round trip. Richmond. Va., July 13-16. Rate One fare, plus S2.00, for the round trip. Indianapolis. Ind., July 20-23. Rate One fare, plus $2.00, for the round trip For full information as to dates of ale and limits on tickets, time of trains etc call on F. A. Lewis, city ticket agent, or J. C. Fulton, depot agent. Glenwood Springs and Return, Only $31.00 via Santa Fe Route. Tickets on sale daily to and including July 11 Iultrnan palace sleepers and tree chair cars daily. For particulars call on T. X. King, agent, depot. Superior Indemnity. Fire, tornado, plate glass eteam boiler, employes' liability, life and ac cident insurance of highest grade and at lowest rates can be had at the rency atGossett Blakeley (successors to M. W. Van Valkenburg), Dudley's bank, 519 Kansas avenue. Loi Angeles, California- $52,000 for the round trip .Via the Rock Island Scenic Route, Detroit and Return $22.50. $22.50 via the Rock Island Route. See our agents. Round Trip Tickets on Sala To Salt Lake and Ogden, $32.00. Glenwood Springs. $31.00. .Via The Rock Island Route. Telephone 30, Kaczynski, for char PIKES PEAK ILLUMINATED Fifteen Hundred Pounds of Bed Fire Bespoke Enthusiasm Colorado Springs. Col.. July 5. The explosion on the summit of Pike's Peak from 10 to 12 o'clock last night of 1,500 pounds of red fire was in keeping with, the spirit of enthusiasm with which this region is celebrating the Fourth, To guard against rain and accidents the fire was distributed over the summit in paper bags holding only a pound or two each. A force of men with torches rapidly fired the packages. so that many of them were burning at the same time. The illumination was thus continued throughout the two hours. The blase was distinctly visible from Colorado Springs, where the signal station, only 13 feet high, is visible. All Colorado Springs, Including thou sands of excursionists from Denver and elsewhere in Colorado and other states who are here, was awake and witnessed the rare event in lawn and roof parties. The reflection was doubtless visible over one half of Colorado and In New Mexico and Nebraska. The Mount Pisgah illumination at Cripple Creek, at 12,500 feet altitude, was also a success. It was visible in Denver and Pueblo. For an hour previous to the Illumina tion a violent snow storm raged, fully two inches of the beautiful covering the ground. A strong wind swept the storm clouds away, and far out on the plains to the north blazed the lights of Colorado's capital, Denver. To the east glowed Colorado Springs. Manitou and Colorado City, while Pueblo's lights twinkled in the south. Rockets and signals previously agreed on told the watchers on the Peak that the people in the cities below were waiting, and then the powder, which had been laid in trains along the north, eastern and southern bows of the Peak was set afire. The effect was magnificent. The na tional colors were reflected from the clouds which had gathered in the west as from a heliograph, and while the fires were kept burning neighboring mountain tops, white with snow, seem ed tipped with flames, while valleys and canyons seemed dyed in gore. Far out over the eastern plains the crim son glow was flung, while the pine topped crests of the Great Divide were incarnadined. About 50 persons were on the Peak, Including the officials of the cog road, who were active in promoting the cele bration. The display was witnessed on the spot by only one woman. Miss Katherine Garnett Summerill, of Phila delphia. The temperature at midnight was 27 above. LARGE RECEIPT OF 1I0GS. June Broke the Record For the Omaha Market For Six Months. Omaha, Neb., July According to all reports the supply of hogs in the coun try tributary to this market is larger than ever before, and the prospects are that the receipts will continue very laree for the rest of the season. The June receipts at the yards were larger than, ever before. It Is estimated the year s receipts will come close to 2.600,000 head. Sheep receipts for June show an increase of 10,000 head over i June a year ago, but the total for the 1 six months of the year shows a slight decrease as compared with 1S9S. For the six months ended June 30 the re ceipts of cattle at the stock yards num bered 306,532 head, hogs, 1.144.627 head and sheep 5r.9,:i."i7 head. This is an in crease of 201,942 hogs over the receipts in the first tialf of 1S9S. HARRINGTON DISMISSED. Former Chief of the Weather Bureau Has Been Retired. Washington, July 5. Mark W. Har rington, former chief of the weather bureau, has been dismissed from the service and is now at his home in Mich igan. When it was decided to establish the weather bureau in Porto Rico, Mr. Har rington was given the post. He had been succeeded as chief by "Willis L. Moore when the present administration came in. He was the cause of so many com plaints in Porto Rico that he was re called and offered a position in an out-of-the-way foreign country. He declin ed to accent unless the government would insure his life for $100,000. His dismissal followed, and he then wrote a letter to President McKinley which leads the officials to believe that Har rington is mentally unbalanced. LONG RIC1CLE TRIP. Harry Culver Makes the Run From Lincoln, Neb., to New York. New York, July 5. There arrived n New York last evening a young man who says he 4ias made a remarkable trip awheel from Lincoln, Neb., to this city. He carried vouchers to show that he had made the journey by a route sel dom if ever before ridden over by a bicyclist. The distance traveled, as in dicated by a cyclometer on his wheel, was 4.120 miles, and the time occupied was 53 days. Harry Culver is the name of this ad venturesome youth, Lincoln Is his home and his age Is 19 years. Riding1 by way of Texas. Louisiana and Florida, he started on a schedule that allowed him M days for the trip. His actual time not only beats his schedule by 27 days, but is likewise claimed as a record be tween Lincoln and New York. The trip out of Lincoln was begun on May 10. the route being via Kansas City and Dallas to Galveston, Texas. To the latter point Culver was accom panied by E. J. Sauvan of Lincoln. For the first 12 days rain fell almost con tinuously, and for several days the pair rode their wheels over railroad ties. In Texas a decided improvement was found in the roads, the course being generally level, though sandy. From Galveston Culver rode alone to New Orleans. From New Orleans Culver rode to Mobile, Ala.; Pensacola. Fla.: Mont gomery, Ala.: Atlanta. Ga.: Charlotte, N. C: Lynchburg. Va.. and Washing ton. D. C. Throughout the south the roads were found to be generally sandy, though not unridable. The stretch of road between Montgomery and Atlanta was the best up to that part of the Journey, and Culver pedaled the XiiO miles in IS hours. Big Seal in Range Cattle. San Antonio, Tex., July 5. One of the largest cattle trades ever made in Texas was closed when J. M. Chittim of San Antonio transferred 30.000 steers to the new syndicate represented by the George B. Loving Commission com pany at $33.40 per head, the aggregate price being $1,105,000. The steers are all on the ranges in the western part of Texas. Seventy-five thousand dollars of the purchase price was paid yester day. Ten thousand demons gnawing away at one's vitals couldn't be much worse than the tortures of itching piles. Yet there's a cure. Doan's Ointment never fails. Heinz's Ice Cream delivered at your deor. Phone 897. 212 East Eighth St. i.-TrNAtfr ?i k Hi jit -vA HER BODY EXHUMED. Husband Arrested In Connection With the Case. Canal Dover. O., July 5. The entire north end of the county is greatly excit ed over the arrest of John Hoover, a well known f.irrcr who lives between the towns of Strasburg and Dundee. this morning in connection with the sudden death of his wife. Hoover nn.I his wife lived alone, and according to his story she became suddenly ill and died in about an hour. After her death Dr. W. A. elsn of Dundee was calle.1, and gave .us opin ion that she had died of heart failure. The neighbors, however, were suspicious and notitied Dr. J. A. Dickson oZ this citv. who is county coroner. Dr. Dickson this morning drove to the Hoover home, where Mrs. Hoover had been buried Thursday, and had tnc re mains exhumed. He removed the dead woman's stomach, and after an examin ation of its contents had a warrant is sued for the arrest of her husband. Con scable John Saam of Strasburg mule the arrest, and pending the examination of the stomach by an expert Hoover wiil be detained. Hoover says he knows noth ing of the cause of his wife's death if other than natural, and will be able to establish the fact. Hoover has been mar ried four times. Three of his wive? are dead and another was divorced. V-s. Hoo ver was formerly Miss Mary Edwards of Scipio. O.. where sue has relatives. But few here know of the arrest. On ac count of the Hoovers' prominence the af fair is creating a great sensation. GAGE AND ALGER AT OUTS Growing Unfriendliness Between the Secretaries. Washington, July 5. The president's tact and graciousness are drawn upon severely to maintain apparently agreea ble relations in hiS'cabinet.Bet weenSecre tary Gage and Secretary Alger there ex ists a feeling of strong and growing hostility. To the friends of either it is not concealed. The two secretaries have always been somewhat antagonistic. Thev Jiave taken opposite sides on many questions before the cabinet. Their dielike for each other has been a matter of growth. But the recent po litical move of Secretary Alger has em phasized the unfriendliness. In defending his alliance with Gov ernor Pingree the secretary of war re ferred to Secretary Gage's independent course toward the president in regard to proposed currency legislation. He did this in a statement for publication. He claimed for himself the same freedom of independent action In political mat ters that the secretary of the treasury had taken. Mr. Gage and bis priends saw in this statement a covert reflec tion upon the secretary' and a betrayal of administration affairs. They even claimed that the assertions of Secretary Alger were not strictly accurate. On the part of friends of the two secretaries there has been much indig nant comment. Both Gen. Alger and Mr. Gage have expressed themselves vigorously. The former speaks of the secretary of the treasury as heading a conspiracy to get him out of the cab inet, while the latter does not hesitate to let his opinion be known that a sense of what is due the president should prompt the resignation of the secretary of war. A president less gifted in har monizing could hardly keep such dis cordant elements in his cabinet a great while. There Is little doubt that Secretary Alger will go. The only question seem ingly is whether the change shall take place shortly or shall be held up until the annual reports of the war depart ment are completed and handed in- Gen. Alger's friends insist that he ought in justice to himself to remain in the cab inet until these reports are made. They have presented this view to the presi dent. The official year will cover the most of the war period. It is argued that the head of the department can not afford to retire until the reports are finished. The secretary has been under fire for many things during the twelve months, and his friends tell him he will make a great mistake if he does not re main long enough to receive the re ports of the heads of bureaus and to render his own account to the presi dent. GAS FROM CORDW0OD. Tacoma Kan Invents a New Method of Producing Light and Heat., Tacoma. Wash.. July 5. Tinner McLead of this city has invented a machine for the combustion of ordinary eordwood. produc ing cheap and non-poisonous illuminating and heating gas. Mclvead has in opera tion a-model with which he has demon strated that one cord of firewood will make 1.0"0 to 20.000 feet of gas and leave thirty bushels of charcoal, worth 30 cents a bushel. The gas caji be sold at 10 cents per 1,000 fteU INCUBATION OF BRIGADIER (From the New York Tribune.) Even before the impulse of war was felt Secretary Alger had already given in creased momentum to personal appoint ments for which there was no authority of law and no need. When installed tnere was no law and no appropriation for a private secretary. Nevert hele.-w he promptly- appointed one and had the salary of $2.(K charged asiainst the war records ap propriation. In this he merely followed precedent. Then he proceeded to infringe further upon the law. He established a new prec edent bv creating the hiiherto unheard-of office of confidential clerk at $2,000 a year. There was no "emergency." no press of additional work. Secretaries Proctor, El kins and Lamont had all got along com fortably with a private secretary only. A place was wanted, that was all. The con dential clerk's salary, like that of the private secretary, was paid out of the war records appropriation. It was done through the easv complaisance of Major (now General) George W. Davis, then a bureau chief, on whose roll the new of ficial in the secretarv's office was carried. Before Private Secretary Squires and Con fidential Clerk Mason could draw their pav Major Davis had to certify that the roll was correct and the payment a legal and proper one. Major Davis conse quentlv certified to what clearly was not true at least twelve times a year. This sort of bureau la:ty soon germinated in to full-blown Carterism: it is simply an other form of Lydeckerlsm. The secre tary wasn't to blame; he was told this was the regular thing in the war depart ment. And ijo it was. Perhaps Major Davis' readiness thus to serve the secretary explains the mystery of his subsequent unexpected elevation to the rank of brigadier general. He was not in action once during the entire war; did not get down to Cuba until the enemy had all been transported back to Spain. Yet after the muster out of the volunteers he was at once reapnointed brigadier gen eral under the reorganization, to the ex clusion of some of the officers who. sword in hand, had charge.! at the head of their troops. Then Fighting Guy Henry, the hero of two wars, was relieved and Gen eral Davis was put In command of Porto Rico. As Davis did not hail from Michi gan, this singular piece of good luck is by some people explained upon the same rule. A year afterward, under "emergency" pressure, a provision was slipped into the proper bill creating the two new offices of private secretarv and confidential clerk. Thev then emerged into daylight. They now" secure their monthly pay without legal certification. This illustrates one of the methods of wax department expan sion. Addicks Repaid in Kind. From the Boston Transcript.! The spectacle of Mr. Addicks' senator ial throes in Delaware reminds me of an episode when he was engaged in the gas business in Boston. Mr. Addicks. as some people will remember, was occu pied here in an attempt which involved a good deal of legislation of one kind or another. During the progress of his at tempt he invited the board of aldermen of the city of Boston one day to go down the harbor on his boat Now Then, and the invitation was accepted. When they started out Mr. Addicks produced a lot of yachting caps, which, as the wind blew fiercely on the little deck of the Now Then, were regarded as proper to replace the more formal aldermanic headgear. All the caps were blue ex cept one. which was white, and this white one Addicks proceeded to present with a flourish to Alderman Farmer, saying as he did so: "I give this to Alderman Farmer to wear as an emblem of purity." All the other aldermen laughed, for Mr. Farmer had been prominent in his opposition to Addicks schemes in the board. Mr. Farmer accepted the white cap and wore it without any protest or. for that matter any complacency. But some time later in the day, when the party were lined up before a soda foun tain. Mr. Farmer said; "Can you tell me. Mr. Addicks, what is the difference between the man who runs this soda fountain and you?" Well, no. I can't," said Addicks; "what is it?" "This man makes his money by put ting gas into water and you make yours by putting water into gas." This palpable hit at the Delaware financier's operations at the time was regarded by the company as a very fair return for the joke of the white cap. Mice Trained by a Woman. From the San Francisco Lxaminer. There is one woman in America who loves mice. She loves them so much that she chooses them for pets and is constanly coddling hundreds of them as most women are wont to coddle kittens and puppies. Mrs. Edith Kingman Poyer is her name. She resides in Woodstock, 111., -where she maintains a nurse farm of large dimensions and ex traordinary interest. Mrs. Poyer is a connoisseur on mice. She makes distinctions in her very cages of pets. There are good mice and bad mice and ugly mice, costly mice t-.nd cheap mice. the has ail kinds, but ehe is discrim I Ml "If 5 inating in her tastes when she wishes to choose a handful of rodents for an evening siesta in the front parlor. When company comes she may bring out her Japanese waltzing mice for en tertainment. Or if the company is learned and given to instructive re search, rather than mere idle diversion, she may usher forth her Egyptian race of cheese-nibblers, the only ones of their kind brought to this country from the land of the Pharaohs. Again, to cur iosity delvers she may introduce her troupe of Spiny ratlets, which, until Mrs. Poyer got hold of them, had never been outside o an English zoological garden. In addition to the Egyptian mouse, the English mouse, the Japanese mouse, the American mouse, and various mice of other respectable nationalities, there is the Dutch mouse, renowned for his resemblance to the Dutch rabbit in point of forehead and cheek markings. The Japanese mice takes after their human countrymen in their propensity for athletics. They perform some amaz ing feats, chiefly in the dancing line. A pair of these little animals will stand on their hind legs and waltz by the hour, whirling first one way and then reversing to whirl the other. The Origin of the Pharaohs. From the Pall Mall Gazette. Professor Petrie has returned to Eng land and has begun his lectures at Un iversity college. He has, of course, a good deal to say about the origin of the Egyptian people, and finds in some of the late discoveries a confirmation of the theories expressed by him some years back. He follows De Morgan and others in attributing the beginnings of the Egpytian civilization (as known to the Greeks) to Mesopotamian influence, as instances of which he quotes the use of seal cylinders, the employment of Babylonian measures of length, and the appearance of sun-burned bricks in the oldest monuments yet discovered. He thinks that the conquering race who brought this civilization with them came from the Ked Sea, and that the three colossal statues of the god Min found by him at Koptos, at the end of the Ked Sea road, are perhaps their earliest documents. Nor is he less positive as to the race which these invaders conquered. The predynastic Egyptians were, he says, Libyans of the same type as the gen eral Libyan population of North Africa, although there may have been some in termixture of negro blood a long way back. These Libyans had also a rela tively high civilization of their own, including an elementary system of sign writing quite different to the hierogly phic, traces of which remained to a very late date. They had also much greater mechanical skill than the in vaders, though a lower sense of art, and it is to the union of their mechani cal knowledge with the artistic powers of the conquerors that he attributes the wonderful constructions of the an cient empire. However this may be, there can hard ly be any doubt that the race which produced the first Pharaoh was origi nally a maritime people. In the huge animal pantheon of historic Egypt the fish held a very small and undistin guished place. Yet in the royal tombs lately discovered by M. Amelineau and M. de Morgan, the fish Is very much to the fore. The hieroglyphic sign used for the name of the king who has been called but probably was not Menes. is that of a fish, and a quantity of ivory and slate fish were found in his tomb. So, at Abydos, M. Amelineau not only found many votive offerings in the form of fishes, but discovered that the provisions buried with the dead kings for their use in the next world consist ed almost entirely of fish and vegeta bles. At Hieracoupolis, too, the sign in this case almost certainly a totem of the king whose name has been read Nar-mer is a fish, and curiously enough a catfish, one of the last animals that an artistic race would have been sup posed to deify. All of which points to the fact that the earliest Pharaohs were drawn from a fish-eating people, who must at one time have lived in a country bordered by the sea. And this sea was probably the Persian Gulf. Heinz's Ice Cream made from pure cream. Phone 397. CASTOR 1 A For Infants and Children. Hia Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of 9 NOVEL EXPERIMENT. Photographing the Growth of an Oak Tree. Washington. July 5. The agricultural department has pressed the moving picture machine into the service of science. The division of vegetable physiology has now a device of this sort in operation in one of its green houses, photographing the growth of a small oak tree. The machine works automatically, taking a picture each hour. At night an electric light is thrown into the circuit as the exposure is made. The machine has been running about two weeks and will be kept going about two weeks longer on its present subject. When the series of pictures is com pleted, it will be possible to reproduce with the stereoptieon the growth of the plant from the time the first shoot ap peared above ground till the tree is in full leaf and a foot or more high. While the oak tree pictures are pure ly experimental to develop the capacity of the machine, it is intended to use the serial photographs in watching the pro gress of plant diseases, blights, Insect parasites and the like. The department hopes In the near future to be able to loan to the agricultural colleges and experiment stations rolls of lantern slide films to illustrate certain of the department's bulletin on these sub jects. In addition to the straight photo graphic work expected of the new ma chine, its designer intends to adapt it to use with the X-ray, so as to take pic tures of certain objects that otherwise would be invisible. It is thought by the department that a series of pictures of this sort taken during the period or gestation would be of value to stock raisers and might be adapted to the use of the medical profession in certain lines of research. NEW SWINDLING DOBSE. Epidemic of Impostors Posing as Secret Service Men. Washington, July 5. Persons posing as secret service men are infesting the country and swindling shopkeepers and others out of many dollars. Chief Wilkie says that scarcely a day passes that he does not receive a letter of com plaint from some part of the country. A hotelkeeper writes that "Mr. Brown of the secret service," had been staying at his hotel and had left without paying his bill, and that he had cashed a check for "Mr. Smith of the secret service,' who was awaiting a remittance from Washington, and it had been returned to him with the information that "Mr. Smith" had no money in the bank. Let ters from hotelkeepera are interspersed with others from all sorts of persons, who have allowed the alleged secret service men to have things of value on credit, and have not been paid. "These men are all imposters," said Mr. Wilkie; "our men do not go around the country proclaiming they are secret service men, and they always have money. It can be set down as absolute ly certain that if a man shows a tin secret service badge and wants to bor row money or get things on credit, he is a fraud. "There are more than usual of these men abroad since the Philadelphia counterfeit case brought our service Into such prominence, and I am getting letters from all parts of the country, from Alabama to western New York." Death of Dr Livermore. Melrose, Mass.. July 5. Rev. D. P. Livermore died at his home today aged SI years. Dr. Livermore's life work has been mainly along the lines in which his wife, Mary A. Livermore, has become distinguished. Forty Buildings Consumed. Birmingham. Ala-. July 5. Fire at Pratt il yebLtrroay uurneo rorty Buildings, causing a loss of $53,000, with only about ts.wo insurance. The fire originated in C. It. Atkinson's grocery store and as the fire department was inadequate to cope whii ii- it uuuiu not De cnec-Ked until buildings in its Ta.th were torn flown. Twenty-one business houses were burned ana several cottages. WANTED HELP. WANTED Husband and wife or a lady or gentleman to superintend a general HKeiicy in a gooa town. J-aDeral salary. van Y col auLIl BL WANTED MALE HELP WANTED SO boys to weed. Watson's isursery, jaxiand. WANTEJ-Men to learn barber trade, J60 monthly guaranteed; new field open ed. Have made arrangements to place graduates on through trains east and west. Eight weeks com pletes. Send for catalogue. Moler Barber v-onee, at. j-ouis, io. CASH for acceptable ideas. State if pat ented. The Patent Record, Baltimore, Md. WANTED yXMALS HELP. WANTED Ladies to travel. $20 and ex penses weekly. Call 117 W. 10th St. WANTED Girl for general housework; must nave reierences. ti wuincy. JOREEKT-iOOMS FOR RENT 5 rooms, unfurnished, sec ond floor, modern. 11. 313 E. 11th. FOR RENT Furnished modern 8 room house for summer. Inquire 422 Green wood ave. FOR RENT Furnished room with board at iio west loth. FOR RENT Extra rooms, first class ooaru. jiv west tn st. FOR RENT Rooms, Crawford flats. East utn St. inquire 212 Kast sth St. FOR RENT Very desirable furnished rooms, all modern conveniences, 1 block from business center. 209 h-ast 7th. FOR RENT Furnished room. Buren. 634 Van FOR RENT 2 furnished or 3 unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping. 301 Har rison. FOR RENT Shady, cool, east front un- lurnished rooms, hrst floor, all Van Kuren FOR RENT Cool, nicely furnished rooms, with or without board. 613 Topeka ave. FOR RENT Furnished r3oms for lirht housekeeping: also pleasant upper east front furnished room with large alcove. 2i wuincy. JFOKJRETTHOTJSES WANTED Mv house, all modern con veniences and furnished, for rent for August and September, Address vacation, care Journal. FOR RENT 5 room house, 12b Lincoln st. iider, bj. Kansas ave. FOR RENT 7 room house. 1124 Tyler St.; au modern improvements. LOST ANB POUND. LOST A pointer dog. body white and brown, sootted head with colored and white nose. Reward If returned to &27 Madison. PAVING. THE OFFICE of the Capital City Vitrified Brick and Paving Co. has been removed to 11 We. .Eighth at. t POR BALE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE-rA great bargain, S2U acres good land, highly improved, in mile from Topeka, only 10 per acre: improve ments cost $4,Ouo; fio acres creek bottom: Flenty timber, water, orchard and small rutt, blue grass and evergreen tree in front yard. T. J. Nichols, Sou Kansas ave, Topeka. Kan. FOR SALE Farms. ranches. garden tracts. fruit larrns. poultry rarma, city prop erty, some business property, or anything you want in tne way of real estate; atso money to loan on good real estate secur ity; houses for rent: also all Kinds of no tary work neatly done. J. E. 6haffr, Chief Hotel, 3-3 Kansas ave. FOB SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE 3 burner gasoline stove with oven, in good condition. 11d W. J-.au- rent at. FOR SALE Folding bed and gas stove. Doth in gooa oruer. Apply at Ml ciay t. or room 11 Columbian building. FOR SALE All kinds of buildln ma terial. Next building north of postoffice. FOR SALE Good surrey, with poie and shafts and double harness. iw. .las. c Smith, 1315 Dillon or 108 Eaat 3rd FOR SALE One good family driving horse, 6 years old, 7o4 West Third. FOR SALE A Shetland pony and buggy. 1415 Van Buren. MISCELLANEOUS. (First published in the Topeka State Journal July &th, 19.) PIIOPOSALS. Proposals will be received at the office of the board of education roomrt until 8 o'clock p. m. Monday, July loth, IKhSi, for building the second story of the Clay street school house, an i stem heating of both buildings from one plant. No pro posal will be conHldered unless accompa nied with a eertitit! check of 5 per cent of the contract price conditioned that the bidder will enter into contract at the price stated and furnish sati.sfactdry security for the execution of the contract. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bida and the right to waive any informality In any bid It considers to the interest of the board to do so. Plans can be seen at the board of edu cation rooms and at the office of T. H. Lescher, architect. H. W. FARNS WORTH, Clerk. STOVE REPAIRS: original castings for cook stoves and heaters, gas and gaso line stoves. 'Phone 313. Hull Stove and Repair Co., 116 E. 8th st. LIST YOUR PROPERTY for sale or rent. THE PETERSON REAL ESTATE CO., 113 West Sixth st. R-I-P-A-N-S. 10 for 5 cents at druggists. They banish pain and prolong life. One gives relief. No mater what's the mat ter one will do you good. MONEY. MONEY to patent good Ideas iiocureij through The Patent Record, Baltimore, Md. LOANS on pianos, typewriters, bicycle. guns, watches, diamonds and any per sonal property. L. Uiatoc. &23 Kan&as uvc. TIN SHOPS. J. M. BAIRD, hot air furnaces, pumps and tin rooting. MS W. 6th. Tel. 359. FRESCO WORK. W. W. GILLESPIE. Fresco Palrter. sign3 and estimfetes furnished on all cHsses of work. 1714 West Fifteenth, To- Seka, Kan. Refers to his work in State ournal building. MACHINSJHOPS MADE IN TOPEKA Established 187S. Machines of all kmda at the Capital Iron Works. East 7th st. and Sant:t Fe tracks. Large foundry. Improved ma chinery. Moderate prices. Estimates cheerfully given. H. K. Brooks and ii. W. jjrooks, proprietors. LAWN MOWERS sharpened, 5c; razors and clippers. Golden Rule. 514 Kan. ave. ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW. MILTON BROWN, lawyer. Practice in all state and federal courts. Suite 41, Craw ford bldg., Topeka, Kan. TOPEKA STORAGE AND WAREHOUSE; CO. Packs and ships household goods. Tel. 1S5. C. D. Skinner. 123 East Sixth st. TURKISH BATHS. TimKll?HA7nrikIINK the Topeka Mineral Wells. Experienced attendants. 316 Harrison. t. WATCHMAKER WATCHES cleaned, 75c: clocks, 50c: mainsprings. 75c; crystals, 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work guar anteed. Old jewelry exchanged for new. If hard up, see Uncle Sam, 12 Kan. ave. SPECIALISTS. DR JTTCLBETCTRRlfrrKntavSL Tel. 765. Stomach, Intestines and Rectum. DR. C. H. Gl'IBOR, Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Lungs. 706 Kansas ave. JEWELER. JAMES B. HATDEN. Jeweler and Opti cian. Complete slock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Fves examined and spectacles properly fitted. BICYCLES. tT, 3. CYCLE CO.. lis E. Sth st. National and Union bicycles. Sundries, repairs. TOPEKA CYCLE CO.. 112 W. 8th t Bicycles and sundries; bicycle and tandems tor rent; repairing; of all klnda. FLORISTa MRS. J. R. HAGUE. Florist, successor to R. J. Groves, S17 Kansas ave. 'Phone 602. STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS. THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 734 KAN. AV. High Grade Rubber Stamps; prompt work, low price. Catalogue Frer. 'Phone INSURANCE. TORNADO INSURANCE at lowest rates. Household furniture insurance a spec ialty. Jas. F. Griffin, 13 Real Estate bldg. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEONS. L. A. RYDER. M.. D. OFFICE! and residence corner Gordon st. and Central ave.. North Topeka. 'Phone 14 Uses the Brinkerhoff system of rectal treatment. a successful and painless treatment for piles, tittula, fishure, ul ceration, etc DR EVA HARDING. Homeopathlst. 62 Kansas ave.- Tel.. 402. S. E. SHELDON. M. D. Surgery and diseases of women, wlta private hospital. Office No. 70 Kan. ave. IDA C. BARNES. M. D. Office 732 Kansas ave. Residence Thir teenth and Ciay. Office hours; 9 a. m. to 11 a. m.. a-nd 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone iii residence and IS ofiice.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING-. -TTTT.v K IfcQCl Quotas Scripture Liberally and De nies His Guilt. Mexico, Mo., JTuly 5. The man identi fied as Alexander Jester, who murdered Gilbert Gates in Monroe county. Mo., eome twenty-eight years ago, is in jail Jiere. He admits that he was known for many years as Alexander Jester, but fays his right name is William Alexan der Hill, and that he never murdered any man in his life and never knew Oilbert Gates. He said today: "I know nothing whatever about the murder of Gilbert Gates, nor did I ever know anything of his family. Pave what time I was in the army, I have been preaching the gospel since 1858. I have organized many churches in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma. My rigbt name is William Alexander Hill, but it is true that I was known until alter the war as Alexander Jester. "I was in North Carolina December 19. 1819. My father died a few weeks before I was born and subsequently my mother married Isaac Jester and as I prew up I was known as Jester. My mother married in North Carolina, but soon after the family moved to Henry county, Indiana. There I grew to man hood and at the breaking out of the war enlisted at Richmond. Ind. In 1858 I was ordained a preacher. I belong to the New Light Christian church. 'How did I haDDen to change my Tiame back to Hill after having been known so long as Jester and serving in the army under that name? Well, it is Just a notion of mine. I was mustered out near home where everybody knew me and I concluded that Was the best place to assume my proper name. I Jiave been married three times. My first two wives are dead, but I was divorced from the third one. I have three child ren living and nine dead. "You want to know how it happened that my sister wrote a letter saying I murdered Gilbert Gates? Surely it must have been the devil in her that made her ilo it. The Lord only knows what a trial that wicked woman has been to me. I tried my best to be a brother to iier, but it was no use." The prisoner was asked bow be sup posed his sister had heard that a young man named Gilbert Gates had been murdered in Missouri twenty-eight years ago. 'I am sure T don't know anvthine about." he said. "My sister has said that I am crazy. I think she ds crazy and filled with the devil. I am so wor ried, so full of grief and shame io think that my sister would lay this great crime on me that I hardly know what I am saying to you." Then, after a pause, tie continued: "Some day when this trouble is ended, I hope I can talk freely to all who want to hear. But you know I have been told by my lawyer not to talk, not to answer bo many questions. I would like to tell all I know, but I must mind what he Fays. I was never in Monroe county, Missouri, in my life, and, of course, never escaped from the jail in this city. I never killed any person anywhere. A man could not commit such a crime and treach the gospel, for I believe that God would strike him dead. The Lord is my nhepherd and I am trusting in him to bring me out of this trouble". Every body is against me, but the Lord has been good to me and I will trust him." WILL HAVE flO REST. Collector Bailey to Enforce Li cense Ordinance Against Slot Machines. II C. Bailey, city license collector, does not propose to let tha slot ma chine proprietors enjoy the fruits of their partial victory. Slot machines are again in operation on the "pay for every number" plan. Vlien operated, under this plan Judge Hazen holds that they are not gambling devices. There is an old ordinance which levies a license of J10 per annum on each slot machine but it has not been enforced because the city has no right to license illegal schemes. Now that the machine has been legalized Collector Bailey "v-ill call upon the owners of slot ma chines to contribute $10 for each one to the city treasurer. Mr. Bailey figures that there are at least 100 in operation which will bring the city a revenue of 51,000 a year. OTIS' DEATH LIST. "Weekly Report of Victims of Wounds and Disease In Hospitals. Washington, July 3. The war depart ment has received the following from General Otis: "Manila. July 5. Adjutant General, Washington: Following deaths since last weekly report Typhoid fever, June 26. Fred C. Fritzson. company E, 13th Minnesota; June 28, Paul J. Rhode, com pany K, 13th Minnesota; Arthur Tro Kott, H, Ninth infantry; Herbert Streat or, C. 13th infantry; June 29th, Fred Frzykalla, corporal, H. Ninth infantry; July 1, Paul Pugh, L, 51st Iowa. "From wounds in action, June 25: Harvey J. Lowe, A, Fourteenth infan try; June 29, Wm. Lapp, L, 12th, infan try; drowned accidentally 22nd. Alfred H. Koch, F, 21st infantry; June 25, James Armstrong. L. 9th infantry; tu berculosis; June 24. Thomas Conners, M, 32th infantry, dysentery; 22nd, John Holzman, H, 17th infantry, pneumonia; June SO, Wm. Hussey, C, 18th infantry, yariola: Junes Allen, G, Third artillery. .(Signed) "OTIS." WHEAT CR0L SHORT. liess Than Half a Crop Has Been Har vested In Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind., July 5. Practically 11 Indiana wheat is in shock. The yield It is found will run between 18,000,000 nd 19.000.000 bushels against 52,000,000 bushels last year. The new wheat com ing into market has brought 75 cents during the last two or three days. In diana will not have much wheat to send out of the state this year. The state consumption is over 13.000,000 bushels. Posey county is the only section in the Btate reporting a full crop. Some of the fie'ds in "Hoop-Pole" township yielded between thirty-five and fortv bushels this year. The rest of the state fell be low all records. The best general show ing Is made in the east-central part of the state, principally between Shelby ville, Rushville and Richmond and In dianapolis. The crop in the northern section may be summed up as a "total failure." Many fields were not cut. Ee rorts indicate that the corn is doing finely and tobacco is also showeing up IR-eU. Twenty Buildings Burned Paris, Tenn., July H. A fire originating laat night in Whiteworth's stables spread to nearly twenty other buildings, causing a total loss of about $175,000. The water upply was inadequate. The origin of the fire la attributed to fireworks. GOOD FOOD. Strength comes from good food and ickness of any sort often, means a lack of the right sort or failure of proper iigestjon thereof. Grape-Nuts, the delicious new food made by the Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich., can be digested by babes, as well aa adults and charms them all. At grocers, m ..i 7T -t. .w-.-...:i-.. JESTER TALKS AT LAST. I FSS.SSS.iSSSSll mA &smn:m vkm wsmD i mmsm s mm msx mm ib vms imm mm m rsm gt5 .,5 The Kind You Have Always Bought and which has been in use for over 30 years, AYcee table Preparation for As sirrrilating theTood and Regula ting the Stamacns antujaweis en Ircanotes"DlfcsKon.Cheerful nessandFtest.Contains neither Opium.Morptune or Mineral. Not Narcotic, A perfect Remedy forConsRpa Gon. Sour Stomach.Diarrxioea, Worms .Convulsions .Feverish uess and Loss of Sleek facsimile Signature ot TTEW YOBK. ll has borne the signature of and has been made under his personal super vision since its infancy. Allow no one to de ceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Consti pation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend. GENUINE era "s fjisrN ri r U lyiyUM ALWAYS Bears the Signature of EXACT COPy DP-WRABPEB. (MB AV'egelablcPrcparationror As similating theTood andRcguta ting the Stomachs and Bowels cf mm Promote s Dif eslton.CheerfuI ness and Ftest.Contains neither c3pium,Morphine nor Mineral. Not Narcotic. 4tjc Smna Jpperrmnt A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion. Sour Storaach.Diarrhoea, Wonr5 .Convulsions Jeveri sh ness aadLoss OF SLEEB Ic Simile Signature of OTW YORK. !'1 EXACT COPy OT VBAEPEO. hp aaiW Always Bought. In Use for Over 30 Years. HOW THINGS C11AN0E. Bent Murdock Eeminiscent Over Guilford Dudley's Banquet. Bent Murdock In El Dorado Republi can: Forty-two years ago this week, Guil ford Dudley, and the writer, were mix ing the mortar, wheeling the stone and laying up the walls of the "concrete" building that still stands on the corner directly east of the hotel, on the corner of Fifth avenue and Quincy street. The mortar was rather "thin" and the stones were put in to fill up, but it was a good job, as the building is still there. Yesterday, Mr. Dudley, who is a plute, gave an "agricultural" dinner to 40 of his friends, who wore dress suits, pat ent leathers and the like. A tender, juicy, well browned roast from the balanced ration steer was the piece de resistance- of the banquet ta ble. The steer was of Mr. Dudley's own raising. He had gathered from all parts of the state the most able experiment ers and advocates of progressive farm ing and the most skillful producers of cattle for the market. College profes sors, packing house men and practical farmers, cattle raisers, grain buyers and fancy stock breeders all gathered around the table, and after disposing of the miiiiy good things to eat, discussed with each other till a late hour the questions of advanced agriculture. And thus do the "mortar mixers" of the fif ties, become the nabobs of latter-day Kansas. Mr. Dudley is probably worth half a million. BEATS A SORCERESS. Lead villa Man Perhaps Fatally In jures a Woman Who Ha Says Is a Witch. I-.eadvtTle, Col., July 5. Mrs. Kate Rothenberg was perhaps fatally beat en last night by M. J. Roberts, who is under arrest and claims that the wo man is possessed of powers of witch craft and has been practicing on him. He says that the woman secures dirt from the grave of "Ci" Minich, who committed murder here in the early days and was hanged, and that she uses this dirt to aid in her sorcery. He declares that the woman conjures up spirits and after holding midnight in cantations invokes the evil genius to do her commands. Roberts says he ha3 lost $250 to the woman and claims she almost destroyed his eyesight. Mrs. Rothenberg is the wife of a tail or and has lived here for years. She is a spiritualist. IN KANSAS CLOTH. Convicts Will Be Clothed In Topeka Woolen Mill Product Kansas convicts will be clothed in Kansas cloth. The Topeka woolen mills have secured the contract for furnish ing the penitentiary with 1,800 yards of cloth for the gray prison uniforms and 1,000 yards of flannel gray striping. The contracts at the penitentiary were awarded Saturday. PATRIOTIC SAN JUAN. Porto Kicans Celebrate Like Americans. Loyal San Juan de Porto Rico, July 5. The Fourth was celebrated here yesterday with great enthusiasm. The events were a military and civic parade, a bar becue, athletic sports, fireworks and patriotic speeches. Governor General Davis gave a reception which was at tended by all the prominent residents. The republican party of Porto Rico, In convention here yesterday adopted a platform and passed, a resolution, to support the government in every meas ure tending to Americanize the island. The convention also endorsed the work done in behalf of the island by Drs. Henna and Zeno now in New York. The celebration of Independence Day and the holding of the convention brought to this city f-om outside towns about 40,000 visitors. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS on the WILL SOON BE EMPTY. Reform School Inmates Swindling Away. The population of the reform school seems to be decreasing rapidly. About a year ago there were 220 inmates and now there are but 165. For several months past escapes have been of weekly and almost daily occur rence and the boys have run away in pairs. One week the record of escapes was about one a day. It has finally been conceded by those connected with the institution that the fire there was of incendiary origin and started for the purpose of giving an opportunity of es cape during the excitement. The day of the fire. Superintendent Hancock an nounced that no one had tried to escape but since than it has been found that at least one boy did try to get away but was unsuccessful. During the past week two boys, who tried to escape, were closely guarded and it was reported they were held by a ball and chain to keep them from try ing it again. SHOW OF THEIR OWN. California Wine Men Engaga Extra Space at Paris. New York. July 5. Major Brackett, secretary of the United States commis sion to the Paris exposition said today that so great had been the demand for space in the agricultural department's exhibit of beverages that the California wine growers, while they would be rep resented in the government exhibit had already engaged a house outside of the exposition and ready for distribution to the foreign buyers. State of Kansas Aground. Evansville, Ind., July 5. The steamers John K. Speed and State of Kansas and the towboats Alice Brown and Smoky City are aprrounrt at Ford's Ferry, practi cally obstructing the channel. Captain Hyatt of the Smoky City says that unless the river rises the boats may stick there all summer. Telephone 530, Kaczynski, for charcoal. CZE1M ON FACE Condition Such Could Not Go Out. In Physician's Care Five Months. CUT1CURA Cured in 1 Month. I bad eczema on the face for five months, dar ing which time I was in care of physician. I could not go out. It was going from bad to worse, when a friend recommended Cutictjra remedies. After I washed my face with Cuticlra Soap and used CuTicDRA(ointment) and Cuticura Rksou TENT it changed wonderfully, and in a month my face teas as clean as ever. TUOd. J. BOTH, 312 Stagg 6t., Brooklyn, N. Y. Outiccra Resolvent, greatest of blood puri fiers and humor expeliera. purifies the blood and circulating fluids of Humor Germs, and thus re moves the cauw, wuile warm baths with Ctti cuh a Soap, and jrentle anointings with Ci;ticura (ointmeut). jzreateRt of emuUient skin cures, cN-ame the skin asd scalp of erupts aud.ac&les, allay itching, burn In jt, and inflammation, ana thus soot lie and heat the most torturing, disfipur ing humors of the skin, scalp, and blood, with loss of hair, when ali other remedies fail. Sold throuehout the world. Pottkr D. attt C. Coip PrepsJtioaion. Mow to Cure Torturing Skis Iueaes, frco SAVE YCUH HANDS '"tg&SZSsg?, True to precedents, it rained i1 ourth. EujErene Hagaa was In Kansas City on the Kourth. The persons who kept on shooting; today should Ue jailed. State Auditor George Cole spent the Fourth at Girard. "Walnut trees are said to be well stock ed with nuts this year. Jay Farnsworth has gone to work on the "Kansas City World. Frank Grimes was s.een in Kansas City yesterday at a ball game. Three blocks of the new pavement on Huntoon street are completed. The Coultis farm is again opened to its friends for the summer. This month's Munsey contains an ex cellent portrait of Kred Funaton. One hardware store sold 35.000 blank cartridges to be used on the Fourth. The Wakaru-sa was the Mecca of a num ber of Topeka Fourth of July picnic par ties. Mr. and Mrs. J. "R. Crockett came over from Leavenworth yesterday to visit friends. "W. G. Brooks spoke at Barker's church in North Topeka Tuesday on ''Advice to Parents." There are hundreds of bad colds in To peka today owning to the wetting people got at the park. Congressman Curtis made two speeches Tuesday one at Nortonville and the other at Valley Falls. The wheelmen are talking" up a big race meet to take place next month, on the Gartield park track. J. AV. Curtis of Paris, 111., is visiting his brother. I. S. Curtis. lie made the trip to Topeka on a bicycle. The picnic parties which went out on the Fourth ad have exciting stories to teil about the rain storm. The relifrious meeting at the city park was not disturbed by rain or noise and kept on all day Tuesday. Alons- with many other improvements, the National hotel has recently added several rooms with baths. This is the day that people "recuperate" and return thanks that the Fourth of July comes only once a year. Just because all the stores were closed Tuesday lots of people remembered things that they wanted to buy in a hurry. The man with his mustache dyed black and a very awe-inspiring voice was much in evidence at Gartield park yesterday. J. 11. Atwood, "governor" of Kansas by the grace of fusion next year, so some of his friends say, was in town Tuesday. A new counciL of the Knights and La dies of Security will be instituted in To peka in July with, over loo charter mem bers. Crook Wright is now the trusty around the county jail. He is serving out a fine of $lw and a thirty-day jail sentence for selling liquor. The bicycle races at the park Tuesday were slow compared with the time some of the wheelmen made to get on this side of the river before the rain. The Knights and Ladies of Cecurity have had 5.4UU applications for membership in the order in 1V.'9. which exceeds the whoe number of applications in 1S9S. All trains had extra coaches attached to them Tuesday, and were overcrowded then. People always have a mania to "go somewhere" on the Fourth. Quite a delegation of Topeka people have taken advantage of the special rates to the Christian Endeavor convention at Detroit and have gone east within the past two days. Speaking of hazardous risks, the man who tries to carry a big watermelon home on a bicycle conies as near being an ad venturer as a man can be in Kansas at this season of the year. On the Fourth of July country people think they have to come to the city to nave a good time, while city people go to the country when they can. It is anything for a change. There were 250 people In the crowd that went out to Osawkie, Jefferson county, Tuesday, to the picnic given by the Cot tage Praying band of the First Methodist church. They filled six coaches on the Santa Fe. If a boy won't work for money just be- fore the Fourth of July there is no hope for him. He will never amount to any thing if his ambition fur spending money j at this time of year doesn't lead him to put forth all the energy he has. The streets were strewn this morning with "dead" cartridges that were used in pistols Tuesday. In some olaces thev could have been gathered up by the quart, but they disappeared rapidly when the small boys began treasuring them up as relics. "When a man hasn't any noise-producing apparatus of his own on the Fourth he gets mad and thinks firecrackers and all such contrivances ought to be abolished. But as soon as he gets hold of some he makes up his mind they are all right and begins to torture people himself. Bicycle riders who go out into the coun try say that farmers sometimes un thinkingly through their hedge trimmings in the roads. If farmers knew how ter ribly destructive hedge thorns are to the well-being of a bicycle tire thev would take pains to keep them out of the road, if they have any regard for their fellow beings. Since the notice of Dean Low's circus for the benefit of the Auditorium was pub lished in the Journal, Mr. Low has receiv ed several very flattering letters congrat ulating him upon his laudable undertak ing. The people of Williamsburg became so enthusiastic over it that thev want him to come with bag and baggage and give the show in their town. They say a holiday will be declared. New Telephone Rate. The following1 telegram has been re ceived by the State Journal from Man ager S. J. Bear of the Phoenix Telephone company: Columbus, O., July 3. State Journal, Topeka, Kan.: Our -residence rate individual metallic circuits only eighteen dollars per an num; the Bell company can't fool the people all the time. S. J. BEAR. Collars and cuffs laundered to look like new by Peerless Steam Laundry 112 and 114 West Eighth street. NOTHING BUT FACTS. No Deception Used In Talking About Morrow's Kid-ne-oids. The Arguments In Their Favor Come From People Who Have Tested Their ETeriti There is no deception in anvthing- we publish about Morrow's Kid-ne-oids. All our statements about Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are facts and from people right here in Topeka. People in all walks of life are using- Kid-ne-oids be cause they cure backache, nervousness sleeplessness and general debility in cases where other remedies have failed Here is a -statement which we ask you to read from Dr. J. H. Goodwin, the dentist at 607 Kansas avenue. Dr. Goodwin says: "I got a package of Morrow's Kid-ne-oids and used them according to the directions and was greatly relieved of lumbago of about four years' standing. One box of Kid-ne-oids completed a cure and there has been no return of my trouble since I consider Morrow's Kid-ne-oids a specific for rheumatism in the lumber regions I have also used Morrow's Liverlax with the most gratifying results." Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are not Bills but Yellow Tablets and are put up in wooden boxes which contain enough for about two week's treatment and sell at fifty cents a box at Swift Holli day's drug store. Morrow's Liverlax are small red granules and sell at twenty-five cents per box. They cure con stipation. Mailed on receipt of price. Manu factured by John Morrow Co., Chem ists, Springfield, Ohio. Chicago the Mon ft ONLY STONE-BALLASTED TRACK. SOLID VESTIBULED TRAINS BETWEEN ST. LOUIS CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS KANSAS CITY, KANSAS CITY AND CHICAGO. Palaee Eeelining Chair Cars Free. Pullman Compartment Sleepers. Ask your own Home Ticket Agent for Tickets via the Chicago ft Alton Railroad, or write to D. BOWES, General Western Passenger Agt., 216 N. Broadway, ST. LOUIS, MO. JAMES CHARLTON, General Passenger and Ticket Agt., CHICAGO, ILL, I There's No Better Line To Colorado than the F Round-trip tickets for $19.00. Good until October 31, 1899. On sale June 25 to July 11. Ask T. L. King, Agent, Topeka, for copy of "A Colorado Summer" L". 'fcAt-t. -kV CORNER STONE LAID. New Montana Capitol to Bo Built at Helena. Chicago, July 5. A special to the Record from Helena, Mont., says: The corner stone of the new state capitol was laid before a large crowd. Special trains brought in thousands of visitors. The city, both residence and business sections, was gaily decorated and all business was suspended. An immense parade in four divisions was formed and marched to the capitol grounds. Adjutant General C. F. Eng lish commanded the line, which con tained company D, Twenty-fourth reg ular infantry, local Grand Army of the Republic post, ex-confederates, Sons of Veterans, volunteers of the Spanish American war, Sons of the American Revolution, Montana Pioneers' society, a battery of artillery, the Helena fire department, Helena Military band. num erous lodges. Governor R. B. Smith and staff, the capitol commission architects and builders and state, county and city officials. Governor Smith delivered an address touching the new building and then Joseph K. Toole, the orator of the day spoke. Mr. Toole was the first gover nor of Montana. Grand Master Chas. W. Pomeroy then proceeded with the Masonic ritual. The trowel used con tained all the metal to be found in Montana. The gavel used was made of wood from the estate of George Wash ington at Mount Vernon. Ex-Senator "VV. F. Sanders on behalf of the Ma sonic fraternity closed the exercises with an address. The capitol structure Is designed in Ionic style and will be constructed of a native sandstone at a total cost of about $300,000. When Others Have Failed J use Kohl's Rheumatism Cure Prize Corn. J. H. "Weaver, who has a farm one mile south of Topeka, claims the msda! for raising corn. H brought sevetal stalks to the Journal office todav which are 11 feet high and are in tassel, besides having well defined ears in silk. Out For Pingree's Position. Xiles. Mich., Julv 5. Philip T. ColgTova of Hastings has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination tor gov ernor. He is a well known lawyer and has a wide acquaintance. He has long been prominent in Republican politics, and was a state senator in 1SS9. For sev eral years he was hea-d of the Knights or Pythias organization of the world. NO TICK TO CONTRACT 0 RS. The undersigned will receive sealed bids. In separate enclosure.up to 12 o'clock noon of Thursday, Julv 6, 1899. for the mason, carpsnter. plasterer, painter, etc. work, jointly, on a new stone church to he bul.t at Alma. Kansas. All work to be com pleted within four months from date ot contract. Contractor to give bond of se curity for amount of contract price. Plans, details and specifications for InspecJon at J. F. Stanton's office, room 29. -tnce block. Topeka. Kan., up to and including June 30th. and in jury rwn of court house at Alma, Kansas, on and after July 1st. Contractors to give employment to local men in preference to outsiders. The committee reserves the right to reject any OF CATHOLIC BFILDING COMMITTEE, P.ev. E. A. Kamp, Pr., Alma, K.an-